William Courtney to William Cain

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

15 February 1799

From

William Courtney

To

William Cain

Enslaved people named

Africa

Citation

ODB 7/423
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 7/321
• 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 7/423). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed of trust, 15 February 1799, naming Africa
• William Cain Sr., a party to this deed