Orange County Indexed
Estate account: Henry Edwards, Peter Willis
November 1793 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Henry Edwards became guardian for the litigation; the court ordered dower division and sale of Peter Willis’s perishable estate, including enslaved people.
- Kind of business
- Estate account
- Court
- November 1793 term
- People
- Henry Edwards (guardian)
- Thomas Snipes
- Peter Willis (deceased)
- Places
- Orange; Chatham
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/480: August 1793 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/612: November 1794 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 5/367: February 1798 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 6/100: November 1800 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 5/663: February 1800 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 6/269: February 1802 term →
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 503
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1793 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).
