Archibald D Murphey to James D Webb trustee & David Yarbrough trustee

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

30 March 1820

From

Archibald D Murphey

To

James D Webb; David Yarbrough

Acting as

trustee

Land

1. Item one: 2000 acres, on which Murphey resides
   Waterways: on Haw River
   Roads and landmarks: mills & distillery
2. Item two: Hawfields
3. Item two: Hawfields
4. Item three: 200 acres, on which Prather resides
   Waterways: Stony Creek
5. Item four: 1600 acres, Lenox Castle
6. Item five: 1300 acres
   Waterways: on Yadkin R; on Abbots Creek
7. Item six: 130 acres, Chatham County
8. Tract 8: lot 116, in Hillsborough
9. Tract 9: lot 118, in Hillsborough
10. Tract 10: lot 264, in Hillsborough
11. Tract 11: lot 265, in Hillsborough
12. Tract 12: lot 266, in Hillsborough
13. Tract 13: lot 279, in Hillsborough
14. Tract 14: lot 340, in Hillsborough
15. Tract 15: lot 115, in Hillsborough
16. Tract 16: lot 43, in Hillsborough

Also conveyed

library of said Archibald D Murphey containing two thousand volumes or thereabouts

Enslaved people named

Nat; Wat; Dan; Ned; Tom; Dick; Jerry; Harry; Reddick; Henry; Bob; Abraham; Davis; Lizza; Kiz; Jennry; Mille; Creesy; Mary; Bridget; Lucy; Betsy; Judy; Rachael; Jo

Earlier title

purchased of John Scott, James Stockard, John Stockard, Andrew Gibson, William Trousdale, Stephen Glass & wife

Citation

ODB 18/63
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 40009, “Record of Deeds, 1818-1821, Vols. 17, 18” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 720 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here. The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Nat, Wat, Dan, Ned, Tom, Dick, Dan, Jerry, Harry, Jerry, Abraham, Davis, Lizza, Kiz, Jennry, Mille, Creesy, Mary, Bridget, Lucy, Betsy, Judy, Rachael.

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 18 (look for ODB 18/63). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed of trust, 30 March 1820, naming Nat, Wat, Dan, Ned and 21 others
• Archibald D. Murphey, a party to this deed