Orange County Indexed
Bill of sale: Charles White to Alexander Carnes
Will Book A, page 239 · dated 20 April 1781 · proved February 1782
Charles White sold unnamed enslaved people to Alexander Carnes.
- Kind of paper
- Bill of sale
- Made by
- Charles White (printed CHARLES WHITE)
- Dated
- 20 April 1781
- Proved
- February 1782 court
- To
- Alexander Carnes
- Witnesses
- William Clark; Wm. Williams
- Enslaved people not named
- For enslaved people
Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.
Where to find it
- Orange County Will Book A, page 239.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
