Orange County Indexed
Deed of gift: Elizabeth Paul to James Paul
Will Book B, page 89 · dated 30 November 1789 · proved May 1790
Elizabeth Paul gave enslaved Peter to her son James Paul for love and one shilling.
- Kind of paper
- Deed of gift
- Made by
- Elizabeth Paul (printed ELIZABETH PAUL), of Orange Co., N.C.
- Dated
- 30 November 1789
- Proved
- May 1790 court
- To
- James Paul (my son; of Washington Co., Ga.)
- Witnesses
- Robert Faucet; Jacob Walters
- Enslaved people named
- Peter (to James Paul)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Peter (this paper, from the Register of Deeds’ compilation)
- Money and goods
- 1 shilling
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 89.
- 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).
