Orange County Indexed
Mill: Pumphret Herendon, Wm Norwood, Alexander Piper
26 August 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Pumphret Herendon’s petition through Wm Norwood, the court appointed viewers to value mill land and summoned adjoining owner Jno Stroud.
- Kind of business
- Mill
- Court
- August 1796 term, 26 August 1796
- People
- Pumphret Herendon (petitioner)
- Wm Norwood (attorney)
- Alexander Piper (commissioner)
- Baxter King (commissioner)
- Lewis K???? (commissioner)
- Benjamin Yeargan (commissioner)
- Jno Stroud
- Places
- Phills Creek
- Amounts
- one acre
Reading note: Lewis K????’s surname was unreadable. One or more personal names or identifying annotations were uncertain in the transcription.
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 126
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
