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Order about enslaved people: John Garrard

May 1816 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Garrard’s administrators received permission to sell three unnamed enslaved people belonging to the estate.

Kind of business
Order about enslaved people
Court
May 1816 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 9, page 201
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1816 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 30005, “County Court Minutes, 1815–1826” (State Archives film).
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