Receipt: Sarah Kirk to Thomas Griffin

Sarah Kirk acknowledged receiving two hundred pounds from Thomas Griffin for an unnamed enslaved woman.

Kind of paper

Receipt

Made by

Sarah Kirk (printed SARAH KIRK)

Dated

4 January 1810

Proved

February 1815 court

To

THOMAS GRIFFIN

Witnesses

John L. Kirk; James Minnis

Enslaved people not named

An enslaved woman

In the records of enslaved people

• Dilce (this paper, from the Register of Deeds’ compilation, which gives the names the abstract leaves out)

Money and goods

£ 200

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 423.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 62.
• Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).