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Order about enslaved people

November 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The sheriff was ordered to hire out jailed Laban Taban until next court.

Kind of business
Order about enslaved people
Court
November 1794 term
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/543: February 1794 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/605: August 1794 term →

Reading note: The ending was incomplete. Earlier entries identified the same named person as free; this order did not state enslavement.

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 621
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1794 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).
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