August 1788 term

Day not given in the source

• Court in sessionThe August county court opened at Hillsborough with three justices present.
• JuryThe sheriff returned the venire listing the summoned jurors.
• SuitHenry Morrow surrendered Jno Morrow as bail in Elliott’s action; the court committed Morrow to the sheriff’s custody.
• Road orderThe court appointed Jno Mitchel as road overseer, replacing Isaac Jackson.
• SuitThe court ordered the sheriff to sell a house and lot levied upon at James Clark’s instance.
• SuitThe court ordered the sheriff to sell land and other property levied upon under Caleb Brasfield’s executions.
• Road orderThe court appointed Wm Rhodes as road overseer, replacing Lazarus Cates.
• Road orderThe court appointed Stephen Ward as road overseer, replacing Alex Underwood.
• Road orderThe court appointed James Robinson as road overseer.
• Road orderThe court appointed Nath’l Duke as road overseer.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Jno Campbell granted to Sam’l Campbell; sureties Wm Rogers.
• Child support orderThe court accepted James Taylor as surety for Wm Strudwick’s parish-indemnity obligation concerning a child.
• TaxThe court exempted Charles Roberts from poll taxation.
• JuryThe court excused Jno Walker from jury service this term.
• Constable appointedConstable Stephen Madden was appointed.
• Constable appointedConstable Reuben Smith was appointed.
• Other businessAn unfinished order named Alex Kirkpatrick without specifying the action.
• TaxThe court allowed Wm Rogers insolvent-tax credits for 702 acres and fourteen polls, including his May list.
• TaxThe court allowed Wm Tate insolvent-tax credits for land and polls; an additional uncertain notation apparently concerned horse seasons.
• JuryFifteen grand jurors were sworn.
• Constable appointedAn unnamed person was sworn to attend the grand jury for the term.
• JuryThe remaining original-panel jurors were listed; Tinnen, Craig, and Walker were marked excused.

26 August 1788

• Court in sessionThe court resumed its sitting with justices Jno Taylor and Jno Ray present.
• MillOn Umstead’s mill petition, the court ordered commissioners to value one acre on each bank and summon opposite landowner Archibald Harris.
• Child or servant boundAn incomplete binding order concerned George Brown’s apprenticeship until adulthood to learn farming.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Charles Roberts granted to Wm Roberts.
• Road orderThe court allowed Jno Walker £50 for expenditure on the Enoe bridge near Town Ford.
• County businessThe court reimbursed Jno Walker £30 paid to clerk Samuel Benton for ex officio services in 1785.
• Courthouse and jailThe court allowed Jno Walker £40.18.6 advanced for courthouse and jail repairs and directed the repair commissioners to repay him.
• County businessThe court allowed Jno Walker £7.16.8 advanced to sheriff James Freeland.
• County businessThe court allowed Jno Walker five percent on money he had received and accounted for.
• County businessThe court directed county-account auditors to destroy vouchers already submitted and settled.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Jno Summers granted to Margaret Summers.
• Road orderThe court appointed Jno Powel as road overseer.
• Road orderThe court appointed Coonrod Pile as road overseer.
• SuitThe jury returned a verdict favoring Rob’t Tinnen against J M Whitney.
• State caseThe court fined jurors James Vawn for failing to attend.
• State caseJno Ray was fined seven shillings for talesman nonattendance; the court remitted the fine after hearing his explanation.
• SuitThe jury awarded Rob’t Faucets’s administrators £10.18.4 against Andrew Murdock.
• SuitThe jury awarded Ludwick Albright £33.14.10 plus costs against Thomas Davis.
• SuitThe jury awarded Thos Watts sixpence plus costs against Wm Lytle.
• Road orderThe court appointed Mich’l Mosier as road overseer, replacing Nicholas Gibbs.
• Official appointedThe court appointed John Allison county register, replacing the deceased Josiah Watts.
• TaxThe court allowed collector Jno Carrington insolvent-tax credits for 772 acres and six polls.

27 August 1788

• Court in sessionThe court resumed its Wednesday sitting; the list of justices present was omitted.
• Road orderThe court appointed a jury to survey the route from Sloss’s across Haw Creek and Haw River toward Chatham, reporting next term.
• SuitThe jury awarded Archibald Lytle £59/8/11 in certificates plus costs against treasurer Jno Haywood.
• Road orderThe court appointed Jacob Wilhite as road overseer, replacing Wm Oneal.
• Road orderThe court appointed twelve men to survey a new road between Tinnens and Mebanes and report next term.
• SuitThe court ordered sale of John M Whitney’s land seized under Andrew Gibson’s execution.
• SuitThe court ordered sale of James Lusdy’s house and lot under Courtney and Watts’s execution.
• SuitThe court ordered sale of Whitney’s land under Allison’s execution; a notation recorded satisfaction to the constable.
• SuitThe jury awarded the Governor tax arrears against sheriff Jesse Gilbert and others, dischargeable through specified money and certificate payments plus costs.
• SuitThe court ordered Lytle and constable Taylor to return the Walker–Horne warrant proceedings for rehearing.
• SuitThe jury awarded Wm Jackson £19.8.7 ½ plus costs against Andrew Brooks.
• State caseThe court fined Tho Love five shillings for talesman nonattendance and then remitted the fine.
• Child or servant boundThe court ordered Nancy Riley bound to John Coleman until legal adulthood.
• SuitThe jury found Allison detained Judah and her children; Lambert released part of the award, and judgment was arrested.
• SuitOn Oneal’s affidavit and attorney’s motion, the court ordered return of Holt’s warrant proceedings against Jack and Oneal for review.
• State caseThe jury convicted Leonard Hayes of petty larceny; after a motion challenging judgment, judgment was arrested.
• Deed provedDeed, Wm Shepherd to Wm Lytle, acknowledged in court.
• Deed provedDeed, Edward Grisham to Fardinan Grisham, proved by Harris Grisham.
• Deed provedDeed, Isaac Anderson to Andrew Murdock, proved by Rich’d Gott.
• Deed provedDeed, Archer Grisham to Anderson Comer, proved by William Saxon.
• Deed provedDeed, John Waggoner to Nathaniel King, proved by John Hogan.
• Deed provedDeed, John Daniel to Anderson Comer, proved by John Cabe.
• Deed provedDeed, Geo Tamplin & Wife to Christopher Barbie, proved by Sam’l May.
• Deed provedDeed, William Wiley to Andrew Watson, acknowledged in court.
• Deed provedLetter of Attorney, James Williams to Jno Estis, proved by Thomas Watts.
• Deed provedDeed, Hugh McAdam to John McAdam, acknowledged in court.
• Deed provedDeed, John Walraven & Wife to John McMurtery, proved by James McMurtery.
• Deed provedDeed, William Hodge & Wife to Thomas Holgan, proved by Robert Ray Jr.
• Deed provedDeed, John Stockert to Nicholas Cunce, proved by Jno Ray.
• Deed provedDeed, John Elliott to James McBride, acknowledged in court.
• Deed provedDeed, James Williams to Jno Elliott, proved by John Collins.
• Deed provedDeed, Cutbred Burton to Joseph Sears, proved by Thomas Holloway.
• Deed provedDeed, James Kennedy & Wife to Joseph Hodge, acknowledged in court.
• Deed provedDeed, John Barbie to William Horn, proved by Thomas Hall.
• Deed provedDeed, Nelson Daniel to William Wills Green, proved by Thomas Trice.
• Deed provedDeed, Samuel Daniel & Wife, proved by Thomas Trice.
• Deed provedDeed, Robert Abercrombie & Davis Grisham to Joseph Seers, proved by James Alston.
• Deed provedDeed, Mark Patterson to Benjamin Yeargain, acknowledged in court.
• Deed provedDeed, Samuel Strudwick and Wife to Thomas Thomson, proved by James Mebane.
• Deed provedDeed, Edward Grisham & Wife to Thomas Holloway, proved by Isaac Whitaker.
• Will provedWill of Josiah Watts, proved by Wm Courtny.
• Will provedWill of Peter Hendrick, proved by Jno Cabe.
• Will provedWill of John Reed, proved by Jno McMennamy.
• Will provedWill of Thomas Sares, proved by the several Oaths of Worham Glen & Henry Sears.
• Will provedWill of William Logan, proved by the several Oaths of William Hart & John Hart Jr.
• Order about enslaved peopleAn unfinished order referred to an unnamed Black person without recording the intended action.
• State caseThe jury convicted Edw’d Willerby of petty larceny involving several objects.
• State caseA juror was withdrawn in Willerby’s hoe-theft case; the court ordered twenty lashes administered by the sheriff.
• Road orderThe court appointed Benjamin Yeargan as road overseer.
• Constable appointedConstable Reubin Smith was sworn into office.
• SuitA juror was withdrawn by agreement in Courtny’s action against Jno Bowls and his unnamed wife.
• Tavern licenseThe court licensed Joseph Allison’s tavern upon a bond secured by James Carson and Wm Shepperd.
• SuitThe jury returned a one-penny verdict plus costs in Wm Williams’s executors’ action against Dav’d Sweat.
• SuitThe jury returned a verdict favoring Jo Woody against Henry Paris Jr.
• Road orderThe court appointed John McCanles as road overseer, replacing James Baldridge.
• Road orderThe court appointed Tho Scarlet to oversee the Rhodes–Weams road and assigned named workers and the widow Patterson’s laborers.
• Road orderThe court appointed Thomas Gwinn road overseer and listed six workers for the route through Peelors to Greens.
• Constable appointedStephen Madden qualified as constable and posted a bond with Ro Tinnen.
• SuitSamuel Benton confessed judgment for £33.12 plus costs in Hutchens’s debt action against him and Reston.
• TaxThe court appointed collector John G Rencher to collect district taxes for the year.
• TaxThe court appointed collector William Trousdale to collect district taxes for the year.
• TaxThe court appointed collector William Rogers to collect district taxes for the year.
• TaxThe court appointed collector William Tate to collect district taxes for the year.
• TaxThe court appointed collector James Kennedy to collect district taxes for the year.
• TaxThe court appointed collector Jno Carrington to collect district taxes for the year.
• TaxThe court appointed collector Jno Armstrong to collect district taxes for the year.
• SuitThe jury awarded Stephen Loyd £135.17.8 plus costs against James Williams.
• SuitThe jury awarded Sam’l Parks £68.11 plus costs; Stephen Loyd replaced James Baldridge.
• Official appointedThe court approved clerk Samuel Benton’s appointment of David Mebane as deputy clerk; Mebane took the required oaths.
• SuitThe jury returned a one-penny verdict plus costs in Watts and Lytle’s action against Stephen J Kirk.
• SuitThe jury returned a one-penny verdict plus costs in Sampson’s action against Bell.
• County businessThe court authorized John Allison to buy a large bound deed register at county expense.
• SuitThe jury returned a one-penny verdict plus costs in Moore’s action against Debows’s executors.
• TaxThe court appointed three men to assess Hillsborough’s taxable property for the year (Absalom Tatom, Wm Lytle, Dav’d Ray).
• County businessThe court awarded constable James Taylor sixteen pounds eight shillings for forty-one days’ attendance before the term.
• TaxThe court allowed collector John Armstrong’s 1787 insolvent-tax list, including western land and additional acreage and polls.
• Order about enslaved peopleThe court appointed three Hillsborough patrol officers (Wm Whithead, Ro Ferguson, Henry Terrel).
• County businessThe court awarded constable John G Rencher four pounds eight shillings for May and August attendance.
• TaxThe court imposed two shillings per poll and eight pence per hundred acres or hundred pounds of taxable town property.
• Official appointedJohn Allison took the register’s qualification oaths after posting the required secured bond.