James Palmer to Thomas Clancy & William Cain Jr & William Cain Sr

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

20 February 1818

From

James Palmer

To

Thomas Clancy; William Cain Jr; William Cain Sr

Land

1. First tract: 95 acres
   Neighbors: Fruit; White; Duncan
2. Second tract: 287 acres
   Neighbors: James Patton; James Turner; John Allen; Samuel Allen

Enslaved people named

Sam; Glascow; Tony; Jack; Prudence; Jenny; Hannah

Earlier title

formerly belonged to Alexander Allen

Citation

ODB 16/346
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 382 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.

Title and grant references

• Proved at the May 1818 court, 26 May 1818 (OCPQS 9/497)

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 16/346). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed of trust, 20 February 1818, naming Sam, Glascow, Tony, Jack and 3 others
• William Cain Sr., a party to this deed