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Suit: Michael Sampson, John M Whitney

25 August 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The jury returned an award dischargeable through payment in specie certificates and costs in Sampson’s action against Whitney.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
August 1789 term, 25 August 1789
People
Jurors
Michael Carrel; Benjamin Peelor; Joseph Weaks; Wm Blackwood; Wm Hobbs; Joseph Kirkland; Joseph Haisting; Robert Baker; Mathew McCauley; Edw’d Wilson; Robert Nelson; Wm Forsythe
Amounts
£16.10.4; £56

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 223
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
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