Orange County Indexed
Bill of sale: John Fairman to Thomas O’Harro
Will Book B, page 288 · dated 3 December 1794 · proved February 1795
John Fairman sold unnamed enslaved people to Thomas O’Harro.
- Kind of paper
- Bill of sale
- Made by
- John Fairman (printed JOHN FAIRMAN), of Orange Co., N.C.
- Dated
- 3 December 1794
- Proved
- February 1795 court
- In the court minutes
- To
- Thomas O’Harro (of Orange Co., N.C.)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Dixon; James Coghlin
- Enslaved people not named
- Enslaved people
- In the records of enslaved people
- Lucey, Sophia, Jude, Bob (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 288.
- 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).
