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Suit: Wm Glenn, Cha Abercrombie

November 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Garnishees Comer and Ansley disclosed bonds owed to the Abercrombies; Comer questioned land-title security, while Ansley could not allocate their respective shares.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
November 1787 term
People
Amounts
£200; 200; 188; 90; 66.13.4; 5; 1.18.2; 1.2.4; 0.5; 7.10; 1.2.4 ¾; 1.0.2; Fifty pounds; £227
Other dates
Jan 1st 1787; 88; 1st Mar 89; 2 Nov’r 86; 1st Dec 87; 1st Dec 88; 7th Oct 86; 16 Feby 73; 7 Jan 86; 1st Jan’y 1786

Reading note: Cha Abercrombie was later Chas Abercrombie, sd Col Abercrombie and apparently Crombi; amounts and abbreviated dates were preserved from the compressed account. Two land-sale bonds totaled £227.

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 85
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
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