Orange County Indexed
Suit: Josiah Watts, Absalum Tatom
28 November 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
With no other property found, the court ordered sale of Josiah Watts’s one-acre Hillsborough lot to satisfy Tatom’s execution.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- November 1788 term, 28 November 1788
- People
- Josiah Watts (deceased)
- Absalum Tatom (plaintiff)
- Justices
- Wm Lytle
- Places
- Hillsbo
- Amounts
- one acre; £20
Reading note: This execution was recorded separately from the adjacent execution for a different sum.
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 183
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
