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Suit: Wm Courtney, Samuel Benton

November 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Wm Courtney recovered damages against Samuel Benton; jurors rejected setoff and found the undertaking within three years.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
November 1797 term
People
Jurors
Rich’d Cochran; James Phillips; John Daniel; Edward Picket; Garret Garrison; George Garrison; Henry Neal; Samuel Chambers; Samuel Nelson; James Ray; James Thompson; John Summerman[?]
Amounts
£56.2

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 313
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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