Orange County Indexed
State case: Wm. McKee, John Griffith, James Yount
28 August 1781 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Thirteen named men were fined £100 each for disobeying Hugh Tinnen’s commands after Robert McIntyre notified them; they were summoned to show cause (Wm. McKee, John Griffith, James Yount, Andrew Griffiths).
- Kind of business
- State case
- Court
- August 1781 term, 28 August 1781
- People
- Wm. McKee (defendant)
- John Griffith (defendant)
- James Yount (defendant)
- Andrew Griffiths (defendant)
- Robert Baldridge (defendant)
- Timothy Hews (defendant)
- Alex. Bolins (defendant)
- William Crabtree (defendant)
- Joseph Mumford (defendant)
- William Anderson (defendant)
- John Faddis (defendant)
- Enoch Collins (defendant)
- Joseph Reed (defendant)
- Robert McIntyre (official; Officer of the State)
- Justices
- Hugh Tinnen
- Amounts
- 100 pounds each
- The court’s words
- “contempt of authority”
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 52-104½
- Published abstract: Alma Cheek Redden, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Orange County, N.C., 1777–1788, page 56 (Orange County Public Library, NC 929.375 HAU)
- 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 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
