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Suit: Joseph Baker, Benj. Leonard, John Allison

2 March 1785 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

In Joseph Baker’s case concerning Benj. Leonard’s administrators, the jury found Jno. Allison had not fully administered the estate.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
February 1785 term, 2 March 1785
People
Jurors
Charles Horton; Jno. Nichols; Moses Crawford; Jno. Armstrong; Reason Rickets; James Holmes; Joseph Hodge; Jno. Steel; Wm. Raney; Wm. Durham; Anderson Comer; James Gray
The court’s words
“Find Jno. Allison hath not fully administered”

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 58-233½
  • 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 37 (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).
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