Estate account: John Thompson, Charles Christmas, Henry Edwards

John Thompson and fellow commissioners were appointed to divide Nathaniel Robertson’s unnamed enslaved people between his children William Robertson and Merritt Robertson.

Kind of business

Estate account

Court

February 1807 term, 26 February 1807

People

• John Thompson (commissioner)
• Charles Christmas (commissioner)
• Henry Edwards (commissioner)
• Nathaniel Robertson (deceased)
• William Robertson (heir)
• Merritt Robertson (heir)

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 7, page 246
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1807 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 30004, “County Court Minutes, 1805–1814” (State Archives film).