Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: Jack, Benjamin Cook
August 1760 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered the sheriff to collar and hire out jailed Jack, whom the record identified as enslaved by Benjamin Cook.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- August 1760 term
- People
- Jack (enslaved person; enslaved by Benjamin Cook)
- Benjamin Cook (enslaver)
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 40-217'
- Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 61
- 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).
