Orange County Indexed
State case: Wm Lockhart, James Coughlan
30 November 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Jurors acquitted Wm Lockhart of fraud; the court ordered jailed witness James Coughlan brought to testify.
- Kind of business
- State case
- Court
- November 1796 term, 30 November 1796
- People
- Wm Lockhart (defendant)
- James Coughlan (witness)
- Jurors
- Wm Clark; Benja Rhodes; Sam’l Steward; Jno Moore; Jacob Ritch; Stephen Forrest; David Strayhorn; Jno Daniel; Jno Piper; David Parker; Sion Bobbit; David Patterson
Reading note: The incomplete preceding entry named Wm Lockart; the witness order used William Lockhart.
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 148
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
