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Stephen R Speights to Matthew Ray

28 April 1820 · ODB 20/150

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
28 April 1820
From
Stephen R Speights
To
Matthew Ray
Enslaved people named
Hepsy Tooth
Citation
ODB 20/150
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).

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 20 (look for ODB 20/150). Our record above is drawn from it.

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