Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: John Ashe, Andrew Burke, Sampson
May 1792 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
John Ashe’s recorded instrument conveyed Sampson to Andrew Burke with a warranty of title.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- May 1792 term
- People
- John Ashe (grantor)
- Andrew Burke (grantee)
- Sampson (enslaved person; age about twenty five years of age; enslaved by John Ashe)
- John Allison (witness)
- Places
- North Carolina; New Hanover County
- Amounts
- one hundred and twenty pounds
- Other dates
- fifteenth day of July 1791
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 447
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1792 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).
