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Estate account: John Scott, Joshua Holt, Isaac Holt

28 August 1804 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Scott, Joshua Holt and Isaac Holt were appointed to divide Rich’d Cochran’s unnamed enslaved people between his widow and daughter Pollydella Cochran.

Kind of business
Estate account
Court
August 1804 term, 28 August 1804
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/125: February 1801 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/129: February 1801 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/487: February 1804 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/545: May 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 566
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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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