John Taylor to William Cain & David Ray

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

21 April 1797

From

John Taylor

To

William Cain; David Ray

Enslaved people named

Simon; Stephey; Phillis; Black Tom; Molley; Dilce; Luce

Citation

ODB 6/416
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 May 1797 court, 27 May 1797 (OCPQS 5/252)

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 6/416). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed of trust, 21 April 1797, naming Simon, Stephey, Phillis, Black Tom and 3 others
• William Cain Sr., a party to this deed