Orange County Indexed
Freedom or emancipation: Patience Pettiford
25 May 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered Wm Partin to return free child Jethro Pettiford to his mother Patience Pettiford after Adam Marley had offered him for sale.
- Kind of business
- Freedom or emancipation
- Court
- May 1797 term, 25 May 1797
- People
- Jethro Pettiford (free child of color; age about the age of seventeen years)
- Wm Partin
- Adam Marley
- Patience Pettiford (mother)
- Places
- Nash County
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 229
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
