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Orange County Indexed

Deed (sale or gift not stated), 20 December 1860

Conveyed Martha Anderson's undivided third of the 400-acre Tatum tract near Hillsborough, which Absalom Tatum's will had set aside for people he freed, to Richard M Jones; Anderson, a free woman of color, agreed to share the cost of clearing title.

Date
20 December 1860
Record
Deed (sale or gift not stated)
Citation
Orange County Deed Book 36/323
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From
Martha Anderson
To
Richard M Jones
People whose names were not recorded
Liberated slaves of Absalom Tatum (not named)

Other dates in the record

  • February 1803: Absalom Tatum's will probated

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

Related records

  • Other, March 1861ODB 36/423George, Cate, Sallie, young George, JackAbsalom Tatum to Susan Valentine; Umstead Mayo; James Mayo; William Mayo; Eliza Mayo; Richard M Jones

Records on the same deed-book page, or that refer to one another. Some are copies of the same document recorded twice.

Sources

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