Orange County Indexed
John Strain to William Jenkins
5 October 1815 · ODB 15/413
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 5 October 1815
- From
- John Strain
- To
- William Jenkins
- Enslaved people named
- Dinah
- Citation
- ODB 15/413
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 Ned.
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 (minutes OCPQS 9/286; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 9/288)
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 15/413). 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), 11 October 1814, naming Dinah
