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Suit: Jesse Lunch, John Sloss, Wm Norwood

November 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court discharged Alexander Anderson, ordered sale of property held by James Fosset Jr, and attached Abner B Bruce in Jesse Lunch’s action.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
November 1797 term
People
Amounts
Twenty pounds

Reading note: John Sloss also appeared as Jno Sloss; James Fosset Jr later lacked the suffix. Some property wording was 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 338
  • 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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