Suit: Henry Dunwoody, George Carrington, Jude

The jury found George Carrington detained five enslaved people claimed by Henry Dunwoody’s executor and awarded nominal damages and costs.

Kind of business

Suit

Court

August 1813 term

People

• Henry Dunwoody (plaintiff)
• George Carrington (defendant)
• Jude (enslaved person)
• Sylvia (enslaved person)
• Peter (enslaved person)
• Poll (enslaved person)
• Henderson (enslaved person)

Jurors

William Hopkins; Henry Edwards; Robert Hall; John Ray; William Warren; Henry Goodrich; James Patterson; Adam Dixon; John Douglass; Edmond Herndon; William Hall; John Warren

Amounts

£200; £175; £100; £125; 1d

Reading note: The executor claimed the five enslaved people; legal ownership was disputed and was not separately inferred. Values remain only in the amounts field.

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 482
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).