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Suit: James Blakes, John Taylor, Elisha Caine

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

The jury awarded James Blakes’s administrators £62.16.7 plus costs against John Taylor and Elisha Caine.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
August 1789 term, 25 August 1789
People
Jurors
John McCabe; Wm Hall; Jno McCanlis; Isaac Dorris; Obediah Martin; Jacob Albright; John Holt; Tho Cate; Jno Kelley; Jno Nichols; Samuel McAdams; Wm Andrews
Amounts
£62.16.7

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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