Orange County Indexed
Suit: Ben Yeargain, James Patterson
February 1795 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Ben Yeargain won damages against James Patterson; a new-trial request produced a rule to show cause.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- February 1795 term
- People
- Ben Yeargain (plaintiff)
- James Patterson (defendant)
- Jurors
- Joseph Tate; Tho Brewer; Wm Clarke; Alex Borland; Walter McFarlin; Ezekiel Brewer; Adam Sharp; Joseph Moore; Wm Picket; Zach Herndon; Tho Horne; Tho Tate
- Amounts
- £20; 6d
Reading note: A comma was missing between Adam Sharp and Joseph Moore.
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 637
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1795 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).
