Orange County Indexed
State case: Samuel Peelor, Benjamin Peelor, Jeany Copley
August 1814 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Witnesses were summoned in Ned’s murder prosecution; the jury acquitted him. Ned was enslaved by Thomas Holloway (Samuel Peelor, Benjamin Peelor, Jeany Copley, Rachel Copley).
- Kind of business
- State case
- Court
- August 1814 term
- People
- Samuel Peelor (witness)
- Benjamin Peelor (witness)
- Jeany Copley (witness)
- Rachel Copley (witness)
- Ned (defendant; enslaved by Thomas Holloway)
- Thomas Holloway (enslaver)
- Robert Grisham (deceased)
- Samuel Peeler
- Jeany Copley
- Patsy Crowder
- Patsy Whitaker
- Moses McGown
- William Whitaker
- John Faddis
- James Child
- Jurors
- John Albright; John Crutchfield; Allen Edwards; Archibald Hamilton; John Scarlet; David McRory; John O’Kelly; James Tate; Goodman Nevill; Alexander Strain; William Rogers; James Faucett
- Other dates
- 10 o’Clock to morrow
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 604
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1814 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).
