Lenard Gates & Jacob Waggoner & Polly Smith & William Smith to Cyrus Laws trustee

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

19 July 1843

From

Lenard Gates; Jacob Waggoner; Polly Smith; William Smith

To

Cyrus Laws

Acting as

trustee

Land

1. Tract 1: 150 acres, McCulley tract
   Waterways: on N Fork of Little River
   Neighbors: John Walker; William Hall heirs; Liddy McKey; Stephen Smith heirs
2. Tract 2: 200 acres, Frederick Gates Tract
   Waterways: on N Fork of Little River
   Neighbors: William Hall heirs; Josiah Turner; Phillip Walker
3. Tract 3: 66 acres, mill tract
   Waterways: on N Fork of Little River
4. Tract 4: 57 acres, whereon Jacob Waggoner now lives
   Waterways: on N Fork of Little River

Enslaved people named

Aaron; Rachael

Earlier title

formerly property of John Wagoner & Jehu Hall

Citation

ODB 30/225
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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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 30 (look for ODB 30/225). 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, 19 July 1843, naming Aaron and Rachael