William Hooper to Thomas Hogg Hooper

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

25 September 1784

From

William Hooper

To

Thomas Hogg Hooper

Enslaved people named

Judah; Jack; Tom

Citation

ODB 2/455
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.

Title and grant references

• Same deed also recorded at: OWB A/316
• In the will books: Bill of sale: William Hooper, Sr. to Elizabeth; Bill of sale: William Hooper, Sr. to Thomas Hogg Hooper (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 2 (look for ODB 2/455). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Agreement, 25 September 1784, naming Judah and Jack
• William Hooper, a party to this deed
• In the chronology: William Hooper divides enslaved people among his children