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Suit: Thomas Davis, James Elliott, Jonathan Lindley

4 March 1786 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Jonathan Lindley and William Hunt were appointed to survey disputed lands in Thomas Davis’s case against James Elliott.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
February 1786 term, 4 March 1786
People

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 26-284½
  • 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 24 (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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