Orange County Indexed
Freedom or emancipation: Absalom Tatum, Duncan Cameron, John Hogg
May 1803 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Absalom Tatum’s executors’ application, the court freed George, Cate, Sally, her child young George and Jack under his will.
- Kind of business
- Freedom or emancipation
- Court
- May 1803 term
- People
- Absalom Tatum (testator)
- Duncan Cameron (executor)
- John Hogg (executor)
- Catlett Campbell (executor)
- Samuel Goodwin (executor)
- George (enslaved person; enslaved by Absalom Tatum)
- Cate (enslaved person; enslaved by Absalom Tatum)
- Sally (enslaved person; enslaved by Absalom Tatum)
- young George (enslaved person; enslaved by Absalom Tatum)
- Jack (enslaved person; enslaved by Absalom Tatum)
- In the will books
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 18/202
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 18/379
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 6, page 411
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1803 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).
