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Suit: Jno Dunwoodie, Elizabeth Dunwoodie, John Malin?

August 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Jno Dunwoodie’s administrators were nonsuited against Elizabeth Dunwoodie; the court denied reinstatement and fined absent witness John Malin?.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
August 1797 term
People
Jurors
Levi Whited; Aaron Walker; Riley Vickers; Daniel Cloud; John Cabe; Jacob Flowers; James Dunnagan; And’w McCulloch; Jno Flinthim; Richard Bird; Jno Wilbourn; Wm Clark

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 270
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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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