Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: Wright House, Anderson Clements, Ezekiel Trice
November 1814 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered equal division in kind of unnamed enslaved people among the House petitioners and minors, with commissioners to report.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- November 1814 term
- People
- Wright House (petitioner)
- Anderson Clements (petitioner)
- Ezekiel Trice (guardian)
- Lewis House (ward)
- Sarah House (ward)
- John Cabe (commissioner)
- Chesley Page Patterson (commissioner)
- Mann Patterson (commissioner)
- William Trice (commissioner)
- John Moore (commissioner)
Reading note: Several operative words were illegible; no enslaved person was named.
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 643
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
