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Orange County Indexed

William Chamlee & Winnefred Chamlee to James Carden trustee

14 August 1840 · ODB 29/170

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
14 August 1840
From
William Chamlee; Winnefred Chamlee
To
James Carden
Acting as
trustee
Land
  1. Tract 1: 136.33 acres, on which William now lives
    Neighbors: Burton Whitaker; Alfred Camlee
Also conveyed
all her clothing, 2 beds & furniture, 1 striped piece of cloth, 500 lbs of pork, 1 oven & hooks, 1 pot, 1 pewter dish, 6 pewter plates, 1 earthen dish, 1 set cups & saucers, 1 set teaspoons, 1 coffee pot, 1 cow & calf first choice, 5 sheep, 1 walnut chest first choice, 1 walnut table, 1 side-saddle, 25 barrels corn, 10 bushels of wheat, 1/3rd part of the flax on hand, 500 lbs fodder, 1 wheel & pair of cards, 6 chairs, 75 dozen of oats
Enslaved people named
Nelson
Citation
ODB 29/170
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).

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

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 29 (look for ODB 29/170). Our record above is drawn from it.

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