Orange County Indexed
Samuel Maines to James Dickey
25 November 1775 · ODB 2/16
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 25 November 1778
- From
- Gilbert Eccles
- To
- William Courtney
- Enslaved people named
- Leo
- Citation
- ODB 2/16
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 40001, “Record of Deeds, 1755-178[5?], Vols. 1, 2” (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.
Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 2 (look for ODB 2/16). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- Read on the deed image: the bill of sale for Leo, about 24, is Gilbert Eccles of Cumberland County to William Courtney, 25 November 1778. This abstract gives it the parties of the land deed on the same page (Samuel Mains to James Dickey).
