Thomas Ruffin to Thomas J Browning

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

2 July 1828

From

Thomas Ruffin

To

Thomas J Browning

Land

1. Tract 1: 650 acres, on which Campbell resided
   Waterways: on Back Creek
   Neighbors: Joseph Armstrong; John Walker; Willis Shaw; Sarah Thompson

Enslaved people named

Monroe; York; Fanny; Horton; Mangum; Zachariah

Earlier title

lands purchased by Campbell from John Trousdale & Jacob Thomas and of two small grants of land from state to Campbell

Citation

ODB 23/163
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 40012, “Record of Deeds, 1827-1832, Vols. 23, 24” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 23 (look for ODB 23/163). 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), 2 July 1828, naming Monroe, York, Fanny, Horton and 2 others
• Thomas Ruffin, a party to this deed