Estate account: Jesse, Dav’d Lynch, Rich’d Hargroves

The court ordered Richard Hargroves and Mary to pay Jesse and Dav’d Lynch their respective shares of Thomas Lunch’s estate.

Kind of business

Estate account

Court

May 1796 term

People

• Jesse (heir)
• Dav’d Lynch (heir)
• Rich’d Hargroves (administrator)
• Mary (administrator)
• Thomas Lunch (deceased)

Amounts

Sixty one pounds one shilling & three pence; Fifty pounds four shillings

Reading note: The text varied Lynch/Lunch, Dav’d/David, Rich’d/Richard; Jesse’s surname was shared in the caption. Some connecting text was unreadable.

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 5, page 102
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1796 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 30003, “County Court Minutes, 1795–1804” (State Archives film).