New and Improved Slave Records of Orange County, North Carolina
Welcome to Orange County's new and improved Slave Records website. The following are brief abstracts of all references to slavery and enslaved people in the Orange County, North Carolina Deed Books. You can search for relevant names by using hitting Ctrl-F and entering the name(s) you are looking for. ODB 2/22 means Orange County Deed Book 2, page 22. OWB A/22 means Orange County Will Book A, page 22. Orange County Bills of Sale refers to a collection of documents by that name at the NC State Archives in Raleigh. - Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds ODB 2/22 George Burrington by trustee to John Guise, 11 Mar 1761, 38500 acres in NC on Northwest Cape Fear River and Northeast Cape Fear River; also about fifty Negroes, cattle, horses, debts due to me in NC & New England etc. ODB 2/188 Thomas Lloyd to John Hogan, 7 Jul 1785, 1000 acres, whereon said Lloyd now lives, 397 acres & tract known as The Meadow Tract, 603 acres; also five Negroes Jeaney, Hannah, Jack,