Orange County Indexed
Elizabeth Whitworth to Edward Couch & Mary Couch
6 February 1816 · ODB 16/151
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 6 February 1816
- From
- Elizabeth Whitworth
- To
- Edward Couch; Mary Couch
- Enslaved people named
- Amy; Joseph; Peter
- Citation
- ODB 16/151
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).
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 November 1817 court (OCPQS 9/433)
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 16 (look for ODB 16/151). Our record above is drawn from it.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Division of an estate, 6 February 1816, naming Amy, Joseph and Peter
