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Suit: Joseph Collins, Stephen Hart

November 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The jury assessed Joseph Collins’s damages and costs against Stephen Hart.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
November 1794 term
People
Jurors
Rich’d Hargreaves; William Clark; Martin Palmer; Hugh McCadams; Charles Christmas; Jno Armstrong; Joseph Tate; Thomas Tate; Jno Cook; Thomas Couch; Tho Lynch; Jo Moore
Amounts
62.14; 6d

Reading note: The principal amount lacked a currency symbol.

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 615
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
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