Orange County Indexed
Suit: Mathew Brown, John Dowell, John Wood
February 1765 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
John Dowell pleaded no debt in Mathew Brown’s suit and was released on appeal with John Wood Senior and David Steel as bondsmen.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- February 1765 term
- People
- Mathew Brown (plaintiff)
- John Dowell (defendant)
- John Wood (surety; Sr)
- David Steel (surety)
- The court’s words
- “Nil Debit”
Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.
Where to find it
- Folio and page 309
- Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 118
- Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30001, “County Court Minutes, 1752–1766” (State Archives film).
