Absalom Holt by Constable John Wrightsell to Michael Holt

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

22 July 1815

From

Absalom Holt

To

Michael Holt

Enslaved people named

Jude

Citation

ODB 15/414
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 Henry.

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 9/280; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 9/292)

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 15/414). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• On this page, Chilton’s abstracts may give a deed the parties of its neighbor: UNC Greensboro’s catalog of slave deeds disagrees with them here, and on pages checked against the deed images the catalog was right. Check the deed image before relying on the parties.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Sheriff's or court sale, 18 June 1805, naming Jude

Other deeds on this page

• ODB 15/414John Allison to Henry Neal, 18 June 1805