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Suit: Ellenor English, James Carson, David English

31 August 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Jurors rejected the purported will of David English in Ellenor English’s caveat against James Carson.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
August 1798 term, 31 August 1798
People
Jurors
Jno Horneday; Wm Harvey; Jacob Wilhoit; Michael Holt; Wm Gant; Thomas Clark; David Allison; John Moore; Thomas Robertson; John Milliken; Thomas Lloyd; James Clendening
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/418: May 1798 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/585: August 1799 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/629: November 1799 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/152: February 1801 term →

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 460
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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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