December 1756 term

Day not given in the source

• Court in sessionThe December court opened at the courthouse in Corbintown.
• Tavern licenseJohn White’s ordinary license was renewed.
• Constable appointedGlass Caston replaced James Lattay as constable.
• Deed provedDeeds of sale.
• Official appointedDaniel Weldon presented his commission as Robert Jones’s deputy attorney general for Northampton, Edgecombe, Granville and Orange.
• SuitThomas Grimes brought an action on the case against Thomas Priestwood.
• SuitJohn Brown brought an action on the case against Alexander Banckson.
• Deed provedDeed.
• County businessSolomon Debow received payment for attending the November Superior Court.
• Tavern licenseJohn Patterson’s ordinary license was renewed.
• Tavern licenseDuncan Bohannan received permission to operate an ordinary.
• Deed provedDeed.
• Deed provedDeed.
• TaxStephen McMillion was exempted from tax because of infirmity.
• County businessThomas Williams received payment for attending the May 1756 Superior Court.
• SuitAlexander Mebane brought an action on the case against Michael Synnot.
• SuitRobert Jones brought an action on the case against James Alliott.
• SuitWilliam Boggan brought an action on the case against Samuel Collins.
• SuitRichard Roberts brought a debt claim against William Hamlet.
• SuitMoses Lovelatta brought an original attachment proceeding against Moses Campbell.
• SuitJohn Patterson brought an action on the case against Jesse Brashear.
• SuitJohn Mooler (?) brought an action on the case against John McDaniel.
• SuitMichael Synnot brought a petition against John Collins.
• Deed provedDeed of Sale.
• Livestock markThomas Holden registered a livestock mark.
• Child or servant boundMary Williams was apprenticed to John Rogers for one year and four months.
• Child or servant boundWm. Williams was apprenticed to John Rogers until reaching the required age.
• Child or servant boundJohn Williams was apprenticed to John Rogers until reaching the required age.
• Child or servant boundMary Potter was apprenticed to William Canady to learn Bible reading, spinning, sewing and knitting until reaching the required age.
• Child or servant boundPhebee Potter was apprenticed to William Canady to learn Bible reading, spinning, sewing and knitting until reaching the required age.
• GuardianshipJosiah Watkins sought Supreme Court review after the Williams children were bound to John Rogers and guardianship was denied to Watkins and Elizabeth Williams.
• Estate accountAnn Anderson and John Anderson filed an inventory of John Anderson’s estate.
• Deed provedDeed, Earl of Granville.
• Deed provedDeed.
• SuitRichard Gibbs was jailed in Robert Berry’s suit; Hosea Tapley and Wm. Jay provided bail.
• Deed provedDeed.
• Courthouse and jailWilliam Chambers was assigned to make two courthouse windows.
• GuardianshipOn Wm. Hodges’s complaint, Thomas Nobles was summoned to the March court to answer allegations of mistreating an unnamed orphan in his care.
• Tavern licenseThomas Wiley’s ordinary license was renewed.
• Deed provedDeed.
• Deed provedDeed.
• Deed provedDeed.
• SuitJohn Slater and Giles Chapman surrendered John Beverley, for whom they had provided special bail; the sheriff was ordered to take custody.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of William Williams granted to Isaiah Watkins.
• Road orderThomas Holden replaced James Dickey as overseer.
• Road orderJoseph Maddox, Wm. Johnson and Freeman Jones became road commissioners to inspect the courthouse route through Mary Williams’ Ford to Rocky River.
• Road orderWilliam Nunn replaced John Dennis as road overseer.
• Road orderWilliam Blackwood replaced Henry Lemon as road overseer.
• Road orderLodowick Clap replaced John Fuller as road overseer.
• Road orderGeorge Erwin replaced James Fruitt as road overseer.
• Road orderPaul Proe (?) replaced Daniel McDaniel as road overseer.
• Road orderThomas Lowe replaced Nathaniel Reed as road overseer.
• Road orderA memorandum recorded Thomas Brooks and Gilbert Patterson’s 1755 Supreme Court appointment as road commissioners south of Haw River toward Cape Fare.
• County businessJames Allison, George Hobson and William Rhodes were excused for missing the previous commissioners’ meeting.
• Road orderJosiah Hadley became overseer from the courthouse to Mary Williams’ crossing of Haw River, with fourteen named workers assigned.
• Road orderJames Stewart continued as overseer from the Virginia boundary near Holls (Holt’s?) Mill to Taylor’s Road on Enoe.
• Road orderJohn Powel replaced David Phillips as road overseer.
• Road orderHugh Porter replaced John Pittman as road commissioner.
• Road orderJohn McGee replaced Jacob Brooks as road commissioner.
• Road orderJohn Landrum and John Pyle became overseers for adjoining Cape Fare road sections, divided at Gravel Bank.
• Road orderWm. Wiley became overseer under Joseph Boggs for a Cape Fare road extension from Western path toward the boundary and reedy fork.
• Road orderCharles Fooshe became overseer for a road from Crown (?) Ford through Hogans Ford to Cape Fare Road, funded by its petitioners.