May 1761 term

19 May 1761

• Court in sessionThe May court opened at Childsburg.
• SuitThe sheriff was ordered to sell Zachariah Routh’s goods attached in James Armstrong’s suit.
• Deed provedDeed for 400 acres, Wm. Churton to James Watson.
• Will provedWill of James Alston proved.
• Livestock markJohn Lambert registered his mark.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Joseph Boggs granted to Esther Boggs; sureties John Wright and Lodowick Clap.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Charles Fooshee and Susannah granted to Joseph Fooshee; sureties Henry Brewer and William Marsh.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of William Graw granted to Haner, or Honor, Graw (?) or Grace (?).
• Road orderHenry Wagoner replaced Robert Davis as road overseer.
• Livestock markJacob Mason registered his mark.
• State caseFourteen named grand jurors were ordered fined for neglect.
• Constable appointedRobert Taylor replaced Cairnes Tinnen as constable.
• Constable appointedJesse Brashear became constable at the head of Haw River.
• Constable appointedJohn Baldwin replaced William Brezzer as constable.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Thomas Harris granted to Elizabeth Harris; sureties James Bowie and Thomas King.
• Official appointedEdmund Fanning became prosecutor for the Crown.
• Road orderA jury was appointed for the courthouse road through Pendergrasses ford to Tucker’s Road; Isaac Collins and Robert Pendergrass became overseers.
• JuryThirteen grand jurors were empanelled and sworn.
• Tavern licenseJohn Graves’s ordinary license was renewed.
• FerryJohn Gray, Alex. Mabin and George Allen were ordered to inspect Giles Chapman’s ferryboat and report at the next court.
• Constable appointedAndrew Caldwel replaced Samuel Stuart as constable.
• Constable appointedIsaac Grisam replaced Lodowick Clap as constable.
• SuitMordecai Gwinn surrendered John Pearson; Gwinn and Benjamin Phillips then entered special bail in the suit against Michael Holt Junior.
• SuitJesse and Middleton Breshear surrendered John Pearsons in John Powell’s suit; Peter Noey and Benjamin Phillips entered special bail.
• Road orderJoseph King, Edward Smith, Henry Gold, John Bryant and Hosea Tapley’s hands were assigned roadwork under John Cate Junior.
• Road orderThomas Roberson became overseer from his house to James McCallister’s, with workers from the road’s upper side.
• County businessJames McCallister proved his attendance as juror at Halifax superior court.
• Official appointedWilliam Reed, Thomas Lloyd and John McGee were recommended as candidates for Orange County sheriff.
• Deed provedDeed for 247 acres, Zachariah Harlin to Thomas Fussell, proved by Thomas Cate.
• Road orderChildsburg’s road-liable residents were assigned work between Great Creek and Enoe River under William Nunn.
• Road orderIsaac Allen, Jonathan Allen, Solomon Debow, Leonard Hoff and Ephraim Gold were assigned roadwork from Country line to Hico ford under James Dochester.
• Road orderSamuel Wall became road overseer from Edward Smith’s former residence to John Boyd’s on Haw River.
• Courthouse and jailSheriff William Reed protested that the county prison was insecure.
• Deed provedDeed (Peter Youngblood, Magdalene).
• Deed provedDeed.
• Deed provedDeed.
• SuitHugh McGomery brought a debt claim against James Boyd.
• SuitCharles Jones brought an original attachment proceeding against John White.
• SuitHugh Smith brought an action on the case against Michael Murry.
• SuitSherrod Reynolds brought an action on the case against John Clark.
• SuitRobert Jones brought a petition against William Brown.
• SuitRobert Jones brought a petition against Margaret Boggan.
• SuitReason Ricketts brought a debt claim against William Barton.
• SuitReason Ricketts brought a debt claim against Timothy Lea.
• SuitMordecai Gwinn brought an action on the case against Samuel Parks.
• SuitJohn Wright brought a petition against John Liles.
• SuitJohn Dowell brought a petition against David Liles.
• SuitJohn Meherg brought a petition against Richard Burton.
• SuitMathew Lock brought a petition against Hugh Smith.
• SuitCharles Basingdine brought a petition against William Vornal.
• SuitHugh Foster brought a petition against Jacob Armfield.
• SuitGilbert Strean brought a petition against Michael Waldrop.
• SuitMichael Holt Junior and his unnamed wife brought an action on the case against John Pearson.
• SuitJohn McGowen proceeded against Joshua Stroud.
• SuitJohn Wright brought an original attachment proceeding against Josiah Wallice and James Morgan.
• SuitJohn Johnson brought an original attachment proceeding against Josiah Wallice.
• SuitLuke Lea brought a petition against Henry Reynolds.
• SuitThomas Stagg brought a petition against Charles Harris.
• SuitNathaniel Cary brought an action on the case against Benjamin Saxon.
• SuitJohn Griggs brought an action on the case against Hosea Tapley.
• SuitJohn Meherg and his unnamed wife brought an action on the case against John Mitchell and his unnamed wife.
• SuitThomas Stagg brought an action on the case against Samuel Burton.