Robert Bell to William Shepherd

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

26 November 1797

From

Robert Bell

To

William Shepherd

Enslaved people named

Davie; Fann; Doll; Suzy; Hester; Sophia

Citation

ODB 6/222
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 40003, “Record of Deeds, 1787-1798, Vols. 5, 6” (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

• Proved at the November 1797 court (OCPQS 5/324)
• Proved at the November 1797 court (minutes OCPQS 5/324; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 5/330)

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 6 (look for ODB 6/222). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 26 November 1797, naming Davie, Fann, Doll, Suzy and 2 others