Boston Isley to Thomas D Watts trustee & Thomas Thompson trustee

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

7 June 1824

From

Boston Isley

To

Thomas D Watts; Thomas Thompson

Acting as

trustee

Land

1. Tract 1: measure not given
   Waterways: on Haw River
2. Tract 2: measure not given
   Waterways: on Haw River
3. Tract 3: 82.5 acres
   Neighbors: Israel Holt; Robert Baldwin; William Baldwin Sr

Enslaved people named

Luce; Lot; Let; Dorcas; Tildy; Abram; Pat; Douglass

Earlier title

one was conveyed to Boston by Mary Parks & other by John Melvin

Citation

ODB 29/163
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 40015, “Record of Deeds, 1836-1844, Vols. 29, 30” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them. The published abstract also gives 106 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 29 (look for ODB 29/163). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed of trust, 7 June 1824, naming Luce, Lot, Let, Dorcas and 4 others