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Richard S Leigh & Cheley P Trice to Lewis Herndon & George Herndon & Willis Herndon & Henry S Simmons

4 December 1854 · ODB 34/628

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
4 December 1854
From
Richard S Leigh; Cheley P Trice
To
Lewis Herndon; George Herndon; Willis Herndon; Henry S Simmons
Enslaved people named
Jack; Sam
Citation
ODB 34/628
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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 40017, “Record of Deeds, 1841-1856, Vols. 33, 34” (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 34 (look for ODB 34/628). Our record above is drawn from it.

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