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State case: Dav’d Cozart, Jesse Couch, Riley Vickers

30 November 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court forfeited absent witnesses’ recognizances in the prosecution of Picket, reduced the penalty and ordered execution.

Kind of business
State case
Court
November 1796 term, 30 November 1796
People
Amounts
40/

Reading note: The word interpreted as forfeited was partly 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 149
  • 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).
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