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Suit: John Mitchell, Jesse Miller

August 1793 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Mitchell’s administrators won a finding that Jesse Miller’s bond was valid and unpaid, with recorded damages.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
August 1793 term
People
Jurors
William Jackson; John Armstrong; John Pugh; Matthew Colter; Job Pendergrass; John Ray; Wm Levi; Alex Kirkpatrick; Joseph Dixon; Thomas Lasley; David Strayhorn; John Allison
Amounts
8.13.10; 22.3.8

Reading note: Administrators were unnamed; both figures lacked currency symbols.

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 486
  • 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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