Orange County Indexed
Sheriff's or court sale, 15 October 1800
Conveyed two Eno River tracts and eighteen people taken under an execution against Nancy Benton as Jesse Benton's executor; other property went to seven other buyers. Turrentine made the deed because John Sloss had left the state.
- Date
- 15 October 1800
- Record
- Sheriff's or court sale
- Citation
- Orange County Deed Book 9/76
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. - From
- Jesse Benton; Samuel Turrentine
- To
- Thomas Hart
- Note
- The parties follow UNCG’s People Not Property catalog. Chilton’s abstract gives this deed the parties of another deed on the same page; where that was checked on the deed images (Deed Book 2, page 16; 6/227; 15/411) the catalog was right.
People named
| Name as recorded | Age | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tom | ||
| Dorcas | ||
| Jack | ||
| Rose | ||
| Milly | ||
| Joe | ||
| Cupid | ||
| Judey | ||
| Clemmy | ||
| Dolly | ||
| Alice | ||
| John | ||
| Daniel | ||
| Chloe | ||
| Milley | ||
| Anderson | ||
| Levia | ||
| Joe the Younger |
Each name links to every record naming someone of that name. Family ties are listed only where the record states them.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- The deed in the historic deeds collection, with its published abstract: Samuel Turrentlne Sheriff to Thomas Hart, 9 May 1799
Sources
- Orange County Register of Deeds, Expanded Collection of All Sales of Enslaved People in Orange County (2021), abstracts by Mark Chilton. This entry summarizes Chilton’s abstract. Orange County Indexed wrote the description.
- People Not Property, UNC Greensboro, catalog entry NC.ORG.9.76.1.
This page is drawn from abstracts and catalog entries, not from the original document. Before relying on it, check the deed book page.
