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Order about enslaved people: James Mebane?

August 1814 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The executors received permission to sell enough unnamed enslaved people from James Mebane?’s estate to discharge its debts.

Kind of business
Order about enslaved people
Court
August 1814 term
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 608
  • 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).
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