Orange County Indexed
Moses Atwater to Solomon Nevill
20 December 1816 · ODB 15/411
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 20 December 1816
- From
- Sterling Harris
- To
- John Newton
- Enslaved people named
- Hannah; Lezza
- Citation
- ODB 15/411
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 Hannah.
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 9/310)
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 15/411). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- Read on the deed image: Hannah and Lezza were sold by Sterling Harris to John Newton, 20 December 1816. This abstract gives the deed the parties of the other deed on the page.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Sale, 29 November 1816, naming Brito
