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Suit: Samuel Dannel

February 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

James Mills’s surviving partners were nonsuited against Samuel Dannel; the court ordered Dannel to show why a new trial should not be granted.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
February 1797 term
People
Jurors
John Strayhorn; John McCauley; Wm Durham; Martin Parmer; Jehue Whithead; John Paul; Wm Bradford; Samuel Nelson; Charles Dunnegan; Thomas Bird; Mann Patterson

Reading note: Only eleven jurors were named; no missing juror was invented.

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 168
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1797 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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