William Hooper to Elizabeth Hooper

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

25 September 1784

From

William Hooper

To

Elizabeth Hooper

Enslaved people named

Sabina; Tom; Pat; Alfred

Citation

ODB 2/458
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).

Reading notes: The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Tom, Pat, Alfred.

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 2/458). 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 Tom, Pat and Alfred
• William Hooper, a party to this deed