Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: Major, James McCallester
13 August 1765 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court judged Major, a child enslaved by James McCallester, to be twelve years old.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- August 1765 term, 13 August 1765
- People
- Major (enslaved person; age 12 years; enslaved by James McCallester)
- James McCallester (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 405
- Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 128
- 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).
