Orange County Indexed
Suit: John G Rencher, Josiah Watts, John Nichols
26 May 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court denied executor Rencher’s request to set aside Whithead’s execution and recover estate money retained by sheriff Nichols.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- May 1789 term, 26 May 1789
- People
- John G Rencher (executor)
- Josiah Watts (deceased)
- John Nichols (sheriff)
- Wm Whithead Sr (plaintiff)
- Amounts
- £55
Reading note: Parts of the motion’s procedural grounds were illegible; the denial was clear. Watts was also written Watt’s.
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 208
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1789 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).
