Orange County Indexed
William Watters by administrator to Samuel Benton
25 February 1794 · ODB 6/227
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 25 February 1794
- From
- William Christmas
- To
- Noial Graves Christmas
- Acting as
- administrator
- Enslaved people named
- Nelse
- Citation
- ODB 6/227
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).
Reading notes: The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Nelse.
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
- See also: OWB A/264
- Proved at the November 1797 court (OCPQS 5/323)
- In the will books: Will of John Christmas (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 6 (look for ODB 6/227). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- Read on the deed image: Nelse was given by William Christmas of Franklin County to his nephew Noial Graves Christmas, 25 February 1794. This abstract gives the deed the parties of the other deed on the page.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Sale, 29 November 1797, naming Peter
