Alexander Mason to James Mebane

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

18 February 1822

From

Alexander Mason

To

James Mebane

Land

1. Tract 1: 180 acres, Mason Hall
   Neighbors: Moses Whitsett; Gilbert Hart

Also conveyed

stud Horse Ostridge, bay horse & brown mare, 2 cows & yearlings, clock, china press, cupboard, 3 folding leaf tables, 5 square tables, dozen Windsor chairds, 5 beds & furniture, 9 bedsteads, sideboard, bureau, two fenders, 8 pair dog irons, 2 writing desks; 1 oven, 2 pots, 9 coffee pots, 10 cups, 3.5 bushels salt, 2 dozen vials medicine; Oil & harts horn, 6 dozen files, 3 dozen chest hinges; 1 pair scales & weights, 2 pair steel yards, 7 cutting knives, 10 frame pictures, 6 candlesticks, 2 dozen plates, 1 dozen dishes, 1 dozen knives & forks, 3 sets of casters, 1 large tin board, 6 coffee pots, 2 tea kettles, 2 table cloths, also kitchen furniture, 4 pots, 3 ovens, 1 large pot in furnace, likewise a set of millstones, spindle wheel, hopper & frame

Enslaved people named

Sam

Citation

ODB 19/301
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 40010, “Record of Deeds, 1821-1824, Vols. 19, 20” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 19 (look for ODB 19/301). 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: Mortgage, 18 February 1822, naming Sam