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Suit: Wm Sheppard, Andrew Burke

26 August 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The jury awarded Wm Sheppard twenty shillings plus costs against Andrew Burke.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
August 1790 term, 26 August 1790
People
Jurors
Andrew Collins; Ro Ferguson; Roswell Huntington; Wm Kelley; Frederick Taylor; Walter Alves; Thomas Watts; Isaac Harvey; Jno Carter; Francis Wilkinson; Wm Parks; Empson Bird
Amounts
20/

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 305
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1790 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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