Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: Frances Child, Mary Doherty, Robert Freeman
November 1799 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Pending a final hearing on the family petition, the court ordered Rachel, Billey and Suckey to remain in Mary Doherty’s custody.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- November 1799 term
- People
- Frances Child (petitioner)
- Mary Doherty (petitioner)
- Robert Freeman (defendant)
- William Freeman (deceased)
- Rachel (enslaved person; enslaved by William Freeman)
- Billey (enslaved person; enslaved by William Freeman)
- Suckey (enslaved person; enslaved by William Freeman)
- Places
- Bertie County
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 5/658: February 1800 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 5/409: May 1798 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 623
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1799 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).
