Orange County Indexed
Freedom or emancipation: Pleasant Henderson, Abram
2 March 1809 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Pleasant Henderson’s petition, the court emancipated Abram and directed that he be known as Abraham Manso.
- Kind of business
- Freedom or emancipation
- Court
- February 1809 term, 2 March 1809
- People
- Pleasant Henderson (petitioner)
- Abram (enslaved person; age about the Age of forty one Years)
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 513
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1809 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).
