Orange County Indexed
Suit: Samuel Benton, William Duffy, James Christmas
February 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Samuel Benton and William Duffy arbitrated James Christmas’s dispute with Mary Steele, ordering bond surrender, payment, divided costs and mutual releases.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- February 1794 term
- People
- Samuel Benton (commissioner)
- William Duffy (commissioner)
- James Christmas (plaintiff)
- May Steele (executor)
- John Steele (deceased)
- William Courtney
- Thomas Ho??
- Places
- Hillsboro
- Amounts
- one hundred Spanish Milled Dollars; Eleven pounds five shillings and six pence
- Other dates
- 25h of February 1795; 17th of January 1791
Reading note: May Steele later appeared as Mary Steele; the arbitration date differed from the source’s February 1794 term. Thomas Ho?? was incomplete; signatures abbreviated the arbitrators’ 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 546
- 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).
