James Webb & Josiah Turner & John Young & Thomas D Watts to James Phillips & William Moffatt

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

13 February 1816

From

James Webb; Josiah Turner; John Young; Thomas D Watts

To

James Phillips; William Moffatt

Land

lot __, in Hillsborough

Enslaved people named

Lewis

Earlier title

Sheriff to James Phillips

Citation

ODB 15/311
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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 9/168)

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 15/311). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Release or receipt, 13 February 1816, naming Lewis
• Dr. James Webb, a party to this deed