Order about enslaved people: James Mebane Jun, Wm Duffy, Robert Faucit

On James Mebane Jun’s motion through Wm Duffy, the court summoned estate executors concerning a proposed sale of enslaved Cisero; the matter was extended.

Kind of business

Order about enslaved people

Court

February 1797 term, 1 March 1797

People

• James Mebane Jun (petitioner)
• Wm Duffy (attorney)
• Robert Faucit (executor)
• John Taylor (executor)
• James Armstrong (deceased)
• Cisero (enslaved person; enslaved by James Armstrong)

Elsewhere in the minutes

OCPQS 4/315: November 1790 term →

Reading note: The annotation “sale enlargd” was read as postponement, not a completed sale.

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 177
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1797 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).