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Administration of an estate: Charles Horton, [Sarah] Horton

24 May 1791 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Administration of the estate of Charles Horton granted to [Sarah] Horton.

Kind of business
Administration of an estate
Court
May 1791 term, 24 May 1791
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/486: August 1793 term →

Reading note: The bond amount and sureties were omitted; the administrator’s given name was supplied in brackets.

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 340
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1791 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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