Mary Rainey to Rachel Rainey & Rebecca Rainey & William Rainey & Polly Rainey & Isaac Rainey & Benjamin Rainey & Elizabeth Rainey & Nancy Rainey & Sally Rainey & John Rainey & Milly Rainey

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

10 December 1816

From

Mary Rainey

To

Rachel Rainey; Rebecca Rainey; William Rainey; Polly Rainey; Isaac Rainey; Benjamin Rainey; Elizabeth Rainey; Nancy Rainey; Sally Rainey; John Rainey; Milly Rainey

Also conveyed

two thirds of moveable property, stock, farming utensils

Enslaved people named

Kizzy; Peter; Betsey; Hannah; Ann; Lewis; Ceasar; Jerry; Dick; Jack; Tom; Charity

Citation

ODB 15/408
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 names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Ceasar, Jerry, Dick, Jack, Tom, Charity.

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 February 1817 court (OCPQS 9/281)

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 15/408). 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), 10 December 1816, naming Kizzy, Peter, Betsey, Hannah and 8 others