Orange County Indexed
Deed: Samuel May to Southerland and others
Will Book A, page 351 · dated 26 May 1785 · proved May 1785
Samuel May conveyed unnamed enslaved people and goods to son Southerland and daughters Molly and Sally, following Thomas Stephens’s bequest.
- Kind of paper
- Deed
- Made by
- Samuel May (printed SAMUEL MAY)
- Dated
- 26 May 1785
- Proved
- May 1785 court
- Family named
- Izzabel (his wife)
- To
- Southerland (son); Molly (daughter); Sally (daughter)
- Witness
- Jacob Richards
- Enslaved people not named
- Enslaved people
- Money and goods
- other chattels
- Places
- Virginia
- Also named
- Thomas Stephens (late of Virginia; dec’d); Mary Stephens (widow and relict of Thomas Stephens)
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 351.
- 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).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
