Orange County Indexed
Deed: John Sears to John Booth
Will Book A, page 277 · dated 27 August 1781 · proved August 1782
John Sears sold John Booth his future interest in his father’s estate, including land and unnamed enslaved people, for 100 pounds.
- Kind of paper
- Deed
- Made by
- John Sears (printed JOHN SEARS), of North Carolina
- Dated
- 27 August 1781
- Proved
- August 1782 court
- To
- John Booth (of the said Province)
- Witnesses
- John Partin; John Boothe, Junior
- Enslaved people not named
- Enslaved people
- Land
- all my Right of my father's Estate ... after my mother's death of both land and enslaved people and everything else
- Money and goods
- 100 pounds
Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.
Where to find it
- Orange County Will Book A, page 277.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
