Child or servant bound: Mary Torrington, Sarah Torrington, Miles Parker

Mary Torrington petitioned concerning Sarah Torrington’s forcible removal by Ephriam Sizemore and requested that Sarah be apprenticed to Miles Parker.

Kind of business

Child or servant bound

Court

September 1753 term

People

• Mary Torrington (petitioner)
• Sarah Torrington (child bound; an orphan female child)
• Ephriam Sizemore (person of color)
• Miles Parker (master)

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

• Folio and page 10-20
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 7
• Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
• Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30001, “County Court Minutes, 1752–1766” (State Archives film).