John C Shield to John W Norwood trustee

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

13 March 1857

From

John C Shield

To

John W Norwood

Acting as

trustee

Land

1. Tract 1: 200 acres, Redding land
   Waterways: on Eno River
2. Tract 2: home tract

Also conveyed

all his household & kitchen furniture, to wit some four beds & bedsteads & bed clothing, 1 clock, 3 tables, 12 chairs, all cooking utensils, pots, ovens, pans, skillets etc, knives, forks, spoons, tableware, crockery, 1 bureau, 1 cupboard, all his farming tools, all articles of property in the house, in the kitchen and on the plantation, 3 horses, 2 head of cattle, some 6 or 7 head of hogs

Enslaved people named

Martin

Citation

ODB 35/213
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 40018, “Record of Deeds, 1856-1862, Vols. 35, 36” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 200 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 35 (look for ODB 35/213). 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, 13 March 1857, naming Martin