Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Emancipation, 19 April 1861

Freed Rosanna, about 40, who was to be known as Rosanna Thompson, on her promise to move to a state where free people of color could live; until she left North Carolina she remained enslaved to Fanny Thompson.

Date
19 April 1861
Record
Emancipation
Citation
Orange County Deed Book 36/377
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
From
Fanny Thompson
To
Rosanna Thompson

People named

Name as recordedAgeNotes
Rosannaabout forty (in Sep 1860)

Each name links to every record naming someone of that name. Family ties are listed only where the record states them.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

Sources

This page is drawn from abstracts and catalog entries, not from the original document. Before relying on it, check the deed book page.

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026