Francis N Waddell & Sarah S Moore to Stephen Moore trustee

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

1 September 1839

From

Francis N Waddell; Sarah S Moore

To

Stephen Moore

Acting as

trustee

Share conveyed

undivided half|half of

Land

1. Tract 1: 2560 acres
   Waterways: Obion River
   Neighbors: Martin Armstrong
2. Tract 2: 1097 acres
   Waterways: Obion River

Enslaved people named

Job; Billy; Toney; Jerry; Peggy; Herminia; Diana; Katey; Elizabeth; Sally; Jack; Madeline; Glaphyra?; Eve; Laura; Isham; Beck; Werter?; Jacob; Robbin; Hannah; Belinda; Cynthia; Lavinia; Becky

Citation

ODB 28/424
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 40014, “Record of Deeds, 1836-1840, Vols. 27, 28” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 5000 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here. The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Job, Billy, Toney, Jerry (Murdock), Jerry (blacksmith), Peggy, Herminia, Diana, Katey, Elizabeth, Sally, Jack, Madeline, Eve, Laura, Isham, Beck, Jacob, Robbin, Hannah, Belinda, Cynthia, Lavinia, Becky.

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

• Later title: ODB 29/278

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 28 (look for ODB 28/424). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed of trust, 1 September 1839, naming Job, Billy, Toney, Jerry and 21 others

Other deeds on this page

• ODB 28/424James Webb & James Webb Jr & Edmund Strudwick to State of North Carolina, September 1839