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Orange County Indexed

Will or bequest, 6 April 1794

James Armstrong's will directed that Cicero be freed. In May 1797, after James Mebane Jr. sought to have him sold, the county court granted the executors' petition for his freedom.

Date
6 April 1794
Record
Will or bequest
Citation
Orange County Will Book C, p. 88
From
James Armstrong
Note
The court's order is in the minutes for May 1797 (OCPQS 5/231).

People named

Name as recordedAgeNotes
Cicero

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Sources

  • Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstracts of the Orange County wills (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, 1958 and 1966). The Register’s compilation does not include this record; Orange County Indexed made it from the abstract and wrote the description.

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

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