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Orange County Indexed

Josiah Allison to William H Adams

12 June 1818 · ODB 17/1A

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
12 June 1818
From
Josiah Allison
To
William H Adams
Enslaved people named
Patty; Pinkney
Citation
ODB 17/1A
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40009, “Record of Deeds, 1818-1821, Vols. 17, 18” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Patty.

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

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 17 (look for ODB 17/1A). Our record above is drawn from it.

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