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Estate account: Samuel Hopkins, Sam’l Love

May 1804 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court authorized Samuel Hopkins to sell enough unnamed enslaved people from Sam’l Love’s estate to cover debts exceeding its perishable property.

Kind of business
Estate account
Court
May 1804 term
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/503: February 1804 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/504: February 1804 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/506: February 1804 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 6, page 543
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
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