Orange County Indexed
Suit: Patric St Laurance, Jesse Benton
August 1793 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Patric St Laurance won damages against Jesse Benton’s executors despite limitation and setoff defenses; a new trial was granted.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- August 1793 term
- People
- Patric St Laurance (plaintiff)
- Jesse Benton (deceased)
- Jurors
- Obed Green; Joseph Clendinnen; John Albright; James McDannel; William Kirk; Rainey Philips; Joseph Tate; Benjamin Peelor; Levi Hall; James Cheek; James Tate; James Murry
- Amounts
- £228.18.9; 6d
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 479
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1793 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).
