John Blair to Isaac Holt & Mary Holt

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

23 July 1814

From

John Blair

To

Isaac Holt; Mary Holt

Enslaved people named

Mint; Violet; Fortune; Bob; Hannah; Lena; Dice; Julis; Vina

Citation

ODB 15/275
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40008, “Record of Deeds, 1815-1818, Vols. 15, 16” (State Archives film).

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Title and grant references

• Proved at the May 1816 court (OCPQS 9/190)

From the bracketed notes in Mark Chilton’s deed-book posts. OCPQS is the minutes of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; RegLn is a line of the colonial Register of Orange.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 15 (look for ODB 15/275). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 23 July 1814, naming Mint, Violet, Fortune, Bob and 5 others