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Order about enslaved people: Wm Courtney, Charles

November 1795 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court authorized Wm Courtney’s estate representatives to sell enslaved Charles to pay Herbert Heans?’s debt, following legal advertising.

Kind of business
Order about enslaved people
Court
November 1795 term
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/639: February 1795 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/554: May 1794 term →
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OCPQS 5/527: February 1799 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/533: February 1799 term →
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OCPQS 5/551: May 1799 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/315: August 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 5, page 51
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
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