Orange County Indexed
Suit: John M Whitney, John Davis
May 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered a survey and jury inspection of the disputed boundaries in Whitney’s action against Davis, with each party choosing jurors and a surveyor.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- May 1787 term
- People
- John M Whitney (plaintiff)
- John Davis (defendant)
- Thos Molholland (Surveyor)
- Jonathan Lindley (Surveyor)
- Jurors
- Jno Estes; A Tatom; A Lytle; George Doherty; Wm Combs; Gilbert Strayhorn; Jno Thompson; Daniel Cloud; James Forest; Edward Turner; Jno Woods; Isaac Gattis
Reading note: Waggoner was read as Jno Woods’s descriptor, yielding six defense jurors as on the plaintiff’s side.
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 47
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
