John Campbell to William Norwood & William Kirkland & Thomas Ruffin

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

1 June 1816

From

John Campbell

To

William Norwood; William Kirkland; Thomas Ruffin

Share conveyed

undivided part

Land

1. First tract: 650 acres, where Campbell resides
   Neighbors: Joseph Armstrong; Sarah Thompson
2. Second tract: 100 acres
   Neighbors: Jacob Huggins; Thomas Ward
3. Third tract: measure not given
   Waterways: waters of Eno River
   Neighbors: Robert Stewart; John Ellison
4. Third tract: measure not given
   Waterways: waters of Eno River
   Neighbors: John Roberts; Samuel Priestly; Wesley Debruler
5. Fourth tract: 640 acres, Dismal Swamp
   Neighbors: Colonel Fontaine; Benjamin Small

Enslaved people named

Matt; York; Dick; Viny; Nancy; Goodwin; Randal; Anthony; Madison; Alfred; Ester; Jude; Warren; Lucinda; Jefferson; Cloey; Rachel; Henry; Sarah; Patty; Lucy; Pinkney; Fanny; Washington; Momae; Jack

Earlier title

purchased from John Trousdale, Jacob Thomas & 2 small grants from North Carolina

Citation

ODB 15/361
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 411.5 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 August 1816 court, 29 August 1816 (OCPQS 9/233)

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 15/361). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Mortgage, 1 June 1816, naming Matt, York, Dick, Viny and 22 others
• William Norwood, a party to this deed
• Thomas Ruffin, a party to this deed
• William Kirkland, a party to this deed