Orange County Indexed
Order about enslaved people: James Hancock, Beck
27 February 1818 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
James Hancock’s executors received permission to sell Beck, an enslaved child belonging to his estate.
- Kind of business
- Order about enslaved people
- Court
- February 1818 term, 27 February 1818
- People
- James Hancock (deceased)
- Beck (enslaved person; enslaved by James Hancock)
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 471
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1818 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).
