William Courtney to William Cain

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

28 November 1798

From

William Courtney

To

William Cain

Enslaved people named

Africa

Citation

ODB 7/321
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 40004, “Record of Deeds, 1798-1800, Vols. 7, 8” (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

• Earlier title: OWB A/277
• Later title: ODB 7/423
• Proved at the November 1798 court (OCPQS 5/503)
• In the will books: Bill of sale: Ralph Williams to William Courtney (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 7 (look for ODB 7/321). 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), 28 November 1798, naming Africa
• William Cain Sr., a party to this deed
• In the chronology: William Courtney mortgages a man named Africa to William Cain