Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: Wm Hooper, Jesse Benton, John
28 May 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Hooper’s attorney’s motion, the court permitted John to carry a gun on Hooper’s land to protect livestock and hunt game.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- May 1789 term, 28 May 1789
- People
- Wm Hooper (enslaver)
- Jesse Benton (attorney)
- John (enslaved person; enslaved by Wm Hooper)
- Places
- Enoe; Hillsbo
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
- Minute book 4, page 212
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1789 term
- 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 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
