Orange County Indexed
Bill of sale: Anthony (x) Cozart to Josiah Davis
Will Book D, page 253 · dated 20 May 1809 · proved November 1809
Anthony Cozart sold Tamar, an enslaved girl, to Josiah Davis for five hundred pounds.
- Kind of paper
- Bill of sale
- Made by
- Anthony (x) Cozart (printed ANTHONY (x) COZART), of Orange Co., N.C.
- Dated
- 20 May 1809
- Proved
- November 1809 court
- To
- Josiah Davis (of Orange Co., N.C.)
- Witnesses
- John Carrington; William Brinkley, Jr.
- Enslaved people named
- Tamar (to Josiah Davis)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Tamor (this paper, from the Register of Deeds’ compilation)
- Money and goods
- £ 500
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 D, page 253.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 40.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
