Robert Mebane to John A Mebane & Elijah Graves

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

May 1823

From

Robert Mebane

To

John A Mebane; Elijah Graves

Enslaved people named

Dick; Charles; Guilford; Frank; Jinny; Patty; Charlotte; Caroline; Daniel; Harry; Joice

Citation

ODB 21/185
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 40011, “Record of Deeds, 1824-1828, Vols. 21, 22” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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 21 (look for ODB 21/185). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), May 1823, naming Dick, Charles, Guilford, Frank and 6 others