Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: William Smith, Tobias Smith
August 1817 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
William Smith was authorized to sell Tobias Smith’s personal estate, including its two enslaved people, for four distributees.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- August 1817 term
- People
- William Smith (administrator)
- Tobias Smith (deceased)
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 395
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
