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Administration of an estate: Peter Willis, Sarah Willis, Thomas Snipes

August 1793 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Administration of the estate of Peter Willis granted to Sarah Willis and Thomas Snipes; sureties Pomfret Herndon and Henry Edwards.

Kind of business
Administration of an estate
Court
August 1793 term
People
Amounts
three thousand pounds
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/503: November 1793 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/612: November 1794 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/367: February 1798 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/100: November 1800 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/663: February 1800 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/269: February 1802 term →

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 480
  • 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).
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