Orange County Indexed
Deed of gift: Thomas Cates to Ann Durham
Will Book D, page 84 · dated 29 November 1802 · proved February 1803
Thomas Cates gave an unnamed enslaved girl to his daughter Ann Durham.
- Kind of paper
- Deed of gift
- Made by
- Thomas Cates (printed THOMAS CATES), State of North Carolina, Newberry District
- Dated
- 29 November 1802
- Proved
- February 1803 court
- Family named
- William Durham (husband of Ann Durham)
- To
- Ann Durham (loving daughter, the wife of William Durham; of Orange County, N.C.)
- Witnesses
- Thos. Wadlington; James S. Gilliam; William Bedire ?; Archibell Durham
- Enslaved people not named
- An enslaved girl
- In the records of enslaved people
- Sally (this paper, from the Register of Deeds’ compilation, which gives the names the abstract leaves out)
- Also named
- Wm. Bedire ? (proved by oath)
Reading note: Source questions William Bedire ? and Wm. Bedire ? in proof clause.
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 84.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 13.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
