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Guardianship: Wm Duffy, Mary Councilman, George

February 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

On Wm Duffy’s motion, the court authorized Mary Councilman to sell part of Jacob Councilman’s land to pay estate debts, after notice.

Kind of business
Guardianship
Court
February 1798 term
People
Amounts
50 acres
Other dates
6 months Credit; 20 days notice
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/504: November 1793 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/233: May 1797 term →

Reading note: Three wards shared the surname Councilman; one adjoining owner’s surname was unreadable. One or more personal names or identifying annotations were uncertain in the transcription.

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 362
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1798 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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