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Abram Tapley to Benjamin Gant

7 January 1839 · ODB 31/306

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
7 January 1839
From
Abram Tapley
To
Benjamin Gant
Enslaved people named
Mary; George
Citation
ODB 31/306
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Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40016, “Record of Deeds, 1843-1847, Vols. 31, 32” (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 31 (look for ODB 31/306). Our record above is drawn from it.

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