Orange County Indexed
State case: Isaac, Wm Lytle, Africa
25 August 1795 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Isaac was convicted of petty larceny after enslaved witnesses testified; the court ordered thirty-nine lashes.
- Kind of business
- State case
- Court
- August 1795 term, 25 August 1795
- People
- Jurors
- Francis Baldridge; Wm Stroud; Rich’d Stanford; James Tate; James Walker; Dav’d Faucit; John Armstrong; Lewis Kirk; James Pratt; Dav’d Allison; Dav’d Ray; John Woods
- Amounts
- 39 lashes
- Other dates
- between the hours of 5 & 7
Reading note: Silvia’s enslaver’s surname was unreadable; sentencing followed the next sitting’s opening.
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 5, page 36
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1795 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 30003, “County Court Minutes, 1795–1804” (State Archives film).
