Orange County Indexed
Bill of sale: James G. Bohun to Michael Shofner
Will Book B, page 249 · dated 17 February 1794
James Bohun sold an unnamed enslaved boy to Michael Shofner.
- Kind of paper
- Bill of sale
- Made by
- James G. Bohun (printed JAMES G. BOHUN), of Warren Co., N.C
- Dated
- 17 February 1794
- To
- Michael Shofner
- Witness
- Augustine Willis
- Enslaved people not named
- An enslaved boy
- In the records of enslaved people
- Sam (this paper, from the Register of Deeds’ compilation, which gives the names the abstract leaves out)
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 B, page 249.
- 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).
