Orange County Indexed
Suit: Robert Hunter, Andrew Murdock
August 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The jury found for Murdock; the court ordered specified household goods held by him as garnishee subject to the plaintiff’s recovery.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- August 1787 term
- People
- Robert Hunter (plaintiff)
- Andrew Murdock (defendant)
- Jurors
- William Jackson; Jno Riley; Wm Clarke; Geo Long; Jonath’n Nichols; Wm Ray; Jno Edwards; Ro Faucet; Wm Galbreath; Sam’l Chambers; Thos Cates
- Amounts
- two Bedsteads; two Tubs
Reading note: Only eleven jurors were named. The goods order was read as continuing this attachment despite the preceding defense verdict.
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 55
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
