Orange County Indexed
Suit: Susannah Umstead, Jesse Benton, Wm Sheppard
27 February 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court authorized Umstead’s deposition without the parties; the jury later awarded Benton £11.2.1. Sheppard filed a salt-sale account affidavit.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- February 1787 term, 27 February 1787
- People
- Susannah Umstead (witness)
- Jesse Benton (plaintiff)
- Wm Sheppard (defendant)
- Jurors
- Isaac Bracken; Geo Garrison; Moses Crawford; Wm Galbrath; Wm Tate; Matthew McCawley; Wm Copland; Stephen Kirk; Stephen Hart; Wm Whitehead; Jno Bowls; Robt Cheak
- Amounts
- £11.2.1; 8 bushels & 3 pecks; £2.12/bushel
- Other dates
- 1782
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
- Minute book 4, page 3
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1787 term
- 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).
