Orange County Indexed

Deed (sale or gift not stated), 24 December 1829

Conveyed Archibald D Murphey's lands, including Lenox Castle in Rockingham, his Haw River mills, Haywood lots and Stokes land, with his library and about a dozen enslaved people, to Thomas Ruffin.

Date: 24 December 1829
Record: Deed (sale or gift not stated)
Citation: Orange County Deed Book 24/155
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From: James Webb; William Kirkland; Archibald D Murphey
To: Thomas Ruffin

People named

Name as recorded	Age	Notes
Henry		Child of Manaw?
Bridget		Mother of Lucy
Lucy		Mother of Henry; mother of Mitchell
Manaw?
Ann
Creig		Mother of Mary
Mary
Jerry
John
Henry		Child of Manaw?
Mitchell	about two weeks old

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Other dates in the record

13 December 1815: Stokes land conveyed to Murphey by Robert Carden and Sheriff Charles Bannon
18 October 1816: Stokes land conveyed by Robert Carden
8 June 1822: Murphey's earlier deed of the Stokes land
3 November 1829: after this date Lucy had a son, Mitchell

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

The deed in the historic deeds collection, with its published abstract: James Webb & William Kirkland & Archibald D Murphey to Thomas Ruffin, 24 December 1829
Dr. James Webb, a party to this record
Archibald D. Murphey, a party to this record
Thomas Ruffin, a party to this record
William Kirkland, a party to this record

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.

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