Orange County Indexed
Deed of gift: John Sheels to Mary Sheels
Will Book B, page 5 · dated 2 March 1787
John Sheels gave his wife Mary Sheels an unnamed enslaved girl.
- Kind of paper
- Deed of gift
- Made by
- John Sheels (printed JOHN SHEELS)
- Dated
- 2 March 1787
- Proved
- Date not given
- In the court minutes
- To
- Mary Sheels (his wife)
- Witness
- John Nichols
- Enslaved people not named
- 1 enslaved girl
- In the records of enslaved people
- Easter (this paper, from the Register of Deeds’ compilation, which gives the names the abstract leaves out)
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 B, page 5.
- 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).
