Archibald D Murphey to Duncan Cameron

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

9 September 1817

From

Archibald D Murphey

To

Duncan Cameron

Land

1. Tract 1: 2000 acres, where Murphey resides
   Waterways: on Haw River; on Alamance Creek
2. Tract 2: 500 acres, Hawfields

Enslaved people named

Jo; Bob; Tony; Henry; Hany; Quamey; Dan; Charles; Ceasar; Jesse

Earlier title

purchased from Archibald Campbell

Citation

ODB 16/132
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 2500 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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 16 (look for ODB 16/132). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Mortgage, 9 September 1817, naming Jo, Bob, Tony, Henry and 6 others
• Archibald D. Murphey, a party to this deed
• Duncan Cameron, a party to this deed