Absalom Tatum by Clerk to Susan Valentine & Umstead Mayo & James Mayo & William Mayo & Eliza Mayo & Richard M Jones

The deed

Kind of deed

Division of land

Date

March 1861

From

Absalom Tatum

To

Susan Valentine; Umstead Mayo; James Mayo; William Mayo; Eliza Mayo; Richard M Jones

Acting as

Clerk

Share conveyed

one third

Land

1. Tract 1: 400 acres
   Neighbors: Fanny Thompson; Edmund Strudwick; Josiah Turner; Robin Jones; Cadwallader Jones
   Roads and landmarks: Chatham Road

Enslaved people named

George; Cate; Sallie; young George; Jack

Citation

ODB 36/423
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: Only the month or court term is given. The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people.

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: ODB 36/323
• Earlier title: OWB D/94
• In the will books: Will of Absolom Tatom (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 36 (look for ODB 36/423). 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: Other, March 1861, naming George, Cate, Sallie, young George and 1 others