Thomas Hart by attorney Joseph Taylor & Morgan Hart to Nancy Benton

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

16 October 1800

From

Thomas Hart

To

Nancy Benton

Acting as

Joseph Taylor|Morgan Hart

Land

1. First tract: 278 acres
   Waterways: waters of Eno River
   Neighbors: Peter Walton; Robert Burnside; John Stubbs; Hart
   Roads and landmarks: Great Road
2. Second tract: 414 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River; mouth of McGowans Creek
   Neighbors: James Riley; Samuel Chambers; Thompson
   Roads and landmarks: mill dam
3. Third tract: 250 acres
   Waterways: head of a spring
   Neighbors: James McGowan

Enslaved people named

Tom; Dorcas; Jack; Rose; Milly; Cupid; Judy; Clemmy; Dolley; Alice; John; David; Chloe; Molly; Anderson; Lavinea; Joe the Younger

Earlier title

same tracts sold under execution to Nancy Benton

Citation

ODB 9/79
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 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (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 B/144
• In the will books: Will of Jesse Benton (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 9 (look for ODB 9/79). 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), 16 October 1800, naming Tom, Dorcas, Jack, Rose and 13 others
• Thomas Hart, a party to this deed