Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: Ephraim Cain, Sam
November 1817 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Ephraim Cain’s request, the court authorized Sam to carry a gun on Cain’s Eno plantation, subject to bond and security.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- November 1817 term
- People
- Ephraim Cain (petitioner)
- Sam (enslaved person; enslaved by Ephraim Cain)
- Places
- Eno
Reading note: Cain later appeared as Cane; one word describing the plantation was unreadable.
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 441
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
