Orange County Indexed
State case: Samuel Coleman
27 February 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The jury convicted Samuel Coleman of assault; a five-shilling fine was recorded, followed by a remission noted ambiguously as 20.
- Kind of business
- State case
- Court
- February 1788 term, 27 February 1788
- People
- Samuel Coleman (defendant)
- Jurors
- Ro Tinnen; Charles Dunnagin; Richard Cates; Jacob Beason; John Breeze; Abram Thompson; Thomas Trice; Edward Wortham; Thomas Cates; Edward Wilson; Wm Wallace; Isaac Jackson
- Amounts
- 5/; 20.
Reading note: The later notation fine remitted to 20. lacked clear units and conflicted with the earlier five-shilling fine.
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 97
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1788 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).
