Orange County Indexed
June 1759 term
68 items of business, in court order.
Day not given in the source
- Court in sessionThe June court opened in Corbin Town.
- Deed provedBill of Sale, Andrew Crawford to John Green, proved by Hugh McConnel.
- MillSamuel Walker was authorized to build a public gristmill on Sandy Creek, where he owned land on both banks.
- MillThomas Laxton was authorized to build a public gristmill on Country line Creek, where he owned land on both banks.
- Estate accountAnn Morrow filed Benjamin Morrow’s estate inventory.
- Child or servant boundJonathan Anderson was apprenticed to Samuel Barnett to learn blacksmithing, reading, writing and arithmetic.
- Deed provedBill of Sale, William Cox to James Watson, proved by Enoch Lewis.
- Estate accountPatty Bohannon filed a further account of Joseph Bohannon’s estate.
- Estate accountAnn Bohannon filed a further inventory of Duncan Bohannon’s estate.
- Will provedWill of Robert Melton, proved by Richard Parker.
- State caseIn Winnifred Pickett’s suit against her husband Micajah Pickett, a hundred-pound bond required his good behavior for one year.
- Estate accountThomas Harris and his wife Elizabeth filed Henry Webb’s estate inventory.
- Estate accountThomas Stagg, Samuel Burton and Thomas Loyd were appointed to divide Henry Webb’s estate.
- Estate accountWentworth and John Webb acknowledged an agreement with Elizabeth Webb.
- Deed provedDeed, Henry McCulloch.
- Deed provedDeed, Earl of Granville.
- MillHercules Ogle’s proposed Deep River gristmill required a two-acre survey, appraisal by four named men and notice to the Earl of Granville’s agents.
- Estate accountJoseph Maddock and John Jones submitted John Stanfield’s estate account as executors.
- Deed provedDeed, Earl of Granville.
- Deed provedDeed.
- Deed provedDeed, Earl of Granville.
- Deed provedDeed.
- Courthouse and jailJoseph Maddock was allowed fourteen shillings for prison repairs.
- State caseMicajah Pickett entered a good-behavior bond secured by Richard Burton, Benjamin Phillips, John Holt and James Burton.
- SuitJohn Collins proved attendance in Thomas Jennings’s suit against Isareel Eastwood.
- Deed provedDeed.
- Deed provedDeed.
- Road orderA twelve-member jury was appointed to lay out the courthouse road toward Tower Hill; Edward Stone, John Patterson and Joseph Barbee became section overseers.
- Road orderA twelve-member jury was appointed for the Thomas Hart plantation connection to Tower Hill road, with James Wade, John Alston and Nathaniel Kimbrough overseeing sections.
- Road orderTwo juries were appointed to lay out a road from Alexander Mebane’s toward the Peedee warehouse route, divided at the Cain Creek meetinghouse.
- Road orderGeorge Horner became overseer of the trading path from Alexander Mebane’s house to Enoe River.
- Road orderGeorge Allen became road overseer from Alex. Mebane’s to Haw River.
- Road orderBenjamin Jackson became road overseer from Eno River to Cap’t Synnot’s.
- Road orderThomas King became road overseer from Synnot’s to the county line.
- SuitThe court commissioned examination of John Gibson, Gabriel Everand and John Alston in Cary’s suit against Robert Boyd.
- SuitHugh Dobbin proved attendance in Thomas Dobbin’s suit against Watt|Boyd.
- Deed provedDeed, Earl of Granville.
- Road orderLodowick Clap and Thomas Lowe became overseers of the Western path from Haw River to the county line.
- Courthouse and jailJames Watson and William Reed were appointed to oversee prison repairs.
- Constable appointedEli McDaniel became constable south of Haw River.
- SuitFrancis Day brought an action on the case against Thomas Dunnagan.
- SuitThomas Jennings proceeded against Israel Eastwood.
- SuitOliver Stroud brought a debt claim against Alex. McCracken.
- SuitWm. Lowther and company brought an action on the case against Jacob Mason.
- SuitPeter Legrand proceeded against Lawrence Vanhook.
- SuitJacob Mason brought an original attachment proceeding against George Mills.
- SuitJames Ball brought an original attachment proceeding against George Rose.
- SuitHenry Tollinger brought an original attachment proceeding against Charles Mills.
- SuitJoseph Moobry (?) brought a debt claim against Paul Collins.
- SuitHenry Evans proceeded against Richard Burton.
- SuitThomas Dunnagan brought an action on the case against Francis Day.
- SuitGeorge Smith brought a petition against Moses Winter.
- SuitWilliam Spruce brought a debt claim against Howell Brewer.
- SuitJames Graves brought a debt claim against James Cheney.
- SuitRobert Hammett brought a debt claim against John White.
- SuitJohn King brought a petition against James Allison.
- SuitJames Espey brought a petition against Jonathan Greenels.
- SuitHenry Brewitt (?) brought a petition against William Howlett.
- SuitThomas Dobbin brought an action on the case against Samuel Watt and Boyd.
- SuitAlex. Mebane brought an action on the case against William Howlett.
- SuitNathaniel Cary brought an action on the case against David Lile.
- SuitJames Watson brought a petition against William Hunphrys.
- SuitJohn Patterson brought a petition against William Moore.
- SuitAlexander Emsley brought a petition against William Bobbitt.
- SuitLazarus Benton brought a petition against Titus Benton.
- SuitRobert Patterson brought an action on the case against Francis Cyprus.
- SuitHenry Whitfills brought a petition against Wolrie (?) Keasey.
- SuitThomas Anderson brought an original attachment proceeding against Edward Williams.