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Order about enslaved people: Barnabas O’Farrill, Andrew Brooks, Tom

August 1813 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Barnabas O’Farrill received permission to sell Tom and Jince on secured credit to pay Andrew Brooks’s estate debts.

Kind of business
Order about enslaved people
Court
August 1813 term
People
Other dates
nine 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 483
  • 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).
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