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Order about enslaved people: Arthur Mangum

23 February 1813 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The administrator received conditional permission to sell Arthur Mangum’s perishable estate, including unnamed enslaved people, if needed to pay debts.

Kind of business
Order about enslaved people
Court
February 1813 term, 23 February 1813
People

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 426
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1813 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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