Orange County Indexed
William Christmas to Graves Christmas
29 November 1797 · ODB 6/227
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 29 November 1797
- From
- James Moore
- To
- Samuel Benton
- Acting as
- administrator of William Watters
- Enslaved people named
- Peter
- 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 Peter.
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 5/333)
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: Peter was sold by James Moore, administrator of William Watters, to Samuel Benton, 29 November 1797. 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: Deed of gift, 25 February 1794, naming Nelse
