Orange County Indexed
Bill of sale: Ralph Williams to William Courtney
Will Book A, page 277 · dated 28 August 1782 · proved August 1782
Ralph Williams transferred the enslaved man Africa to William Courtney.
- Kind of paper
- Bill of sale
- Made by
- Ralph Williams (printed RALPH WILLIAMS)
- Dated
- 28 August 1782
- Proved
- August 1782 court
- To
- William Courtney
- Witnesses
- John Ramsey; Zach. Harmon; John Montgomery
- Enslaved people named
- Africa (to William Courtney)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Africa (this paper, from the Register of Deeds’ compilation)
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 7, page 321; Deed Book 7, page 423
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 277.
- 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).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
