Orange County Indexed
State case: Bob, Wm Hunt
August 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Jurors convicted enslaved Bob of housebreaking and theft from Sam’l Dick; the court sentenced him to whipping, ear mutilation and branding.
- Kind of business
- State case
- Court
- August 1798 term
- People
- Bob (defendant; enslaved by Wm Hunt)
- Wm Hunt (enslaver)
- Sam’l Dick
- Jurors
- Jacob Wilhoit; Michael Holt; Wm Gaunt; David Allison; John Moore; Thomas Robertson; Isaac Holt; Robert Fosett; Robert Dixon; John Justice; Abner Tapp; John Carson
- Places
- Granville County; Orange County
- Amounts
- £200; thirty nine
- Other dates
- between the hours of 12 & 2 o’clock on this day
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 453
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1798 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).
