Suit: Wm Duffy, Eleanor Whitehead, Fisher Clendennin

On Wm Duffy’s motion, the court appointed ??? Whithead to represent Eleanor Whitehead in her suit against Fisher Clendennin.

Kind of business

Suit

Court

August 1796 term, 26 August 1796

People

• Wm Duffy (attorney)
• ??? Whithead
• Eleanor Whitehead (plaintiff)
• Fisher Clendennin (defendant)

Reading note: The next friend’s given name 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 127
• 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).