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Order about enslaved people: Allen Edwards, John Taylor

31 May 1817 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Allen Edwards requested that John Taylor issue James Moore a ticket for Edwards’s previous year of patrol service.

Kind of business
Order about enslaved people
Court
May 1817 term, 31 May 1817
People
Other dates
September the 5 day 1818

Reading note: This separately dated note was inserted among earlier minutes; its 1818 date was retained.

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 365
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1817 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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