James S Smith to Delia Smith & Mary R Smith & Francis James S Smith & James Sydney Smith

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

27 September 1845

From

James S Smith

To

Delia Smith; Mary R Smith; Francis James S Smith; James Sydney Smith

Enslaved people named

Willis; Dempsey

Earlier title

Francis Jones to James S Smith

Citation

ODB 31/400
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 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.

Title and grant references

• Earlier title: OCWB F/198

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 31 (look for ODB 31/400). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Agreement, 27 September 1845, naming Willis
• James Strudwick Smith, a party to this deed