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Richard Burton to Christian Butler

21 November 1771 · ODB 3/359

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
21 November 1771
From
Richard Burton
To
Christian Butler
Enslaved people named
Edey
Citation
ODB 3/359
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 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 3 (look for ODB 3/359). Our record above is drawn from it.

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