Estate account: Rachel Williams Sr

The court authorized Rachel Williams Sr’s administrators to sell three unnamed enslaved people and the remaining personal estate for distribution among ten beneficiaries.

Kind of business

Estate account

Court

February 1804 term, 28 February 1804

People

• Rachel Williams Sr (deceased)

Amounts

ten; three

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 486
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1804 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).