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Orange County Indexed

Order about enslaved people: Charles Christmas

24 November 1812 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court authorized the executors to sell Charles Christmas’s unnamed enslaved people on credit to pay estate debts.

Kind of business
Order about enslaved people
Court
November 1812 term, 24 November 1812
People
Other dates
twelve months

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 8, page 404
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1812 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).
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