Orange County Indexed
Suit: John Grant Rencher, David Strayhorn
February 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The jury found David Strayhorn had not undertaken the alleged obligation and ruled against John Grant Rencher.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- February 1794 term
- People
- John Grant Rencher (plaintiff)
- David Strayhorn (defendant)
- Jurors
- James Thompson; Matthew Hunter; Edward Harris; Benjamin Cate; John Latta; John Carrington; James Thompson; Rob’t Millikin; Lewis Jones; Francis Wilkinson; John Ray; Joseph Hodge
Reading note: Part of the plea was unreadable; Lewis Jones and Francis Wilkinson lacked a separating comma; repeated James Thompson entries were retained.
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 530
- 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).
