Suit: Patrick St Laurance, Jesse Benton

Patrick St Laurance recovered damages and costs from Jesse Benton’s executors.

Kind of business

Suit

Court

February 1794 term

People

• Patrick St Laurance (plaintiff)
• Jesse Benton (deceased)

Jurors

James Thompson; Matthew Hunter; Edward Harris; Ben Cate; John Latta; Jno Carrington; George Holt; Jno Ray; Jno Reves; Thos Cate; Ben Peelor; Lewis Jones; Francis Wilkinson

Amounts

68.1.11d; 6d

Reading note: The executors were unnamed; a comma appeared missing between Ben Peelor and Lewis Jones. The source listed 13 jurors; the list was preserved without inventing or removing names.

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 528
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1794 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).