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Suit: Michael Holt, A Gibson, Keziah Holt

November 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Commissions were recorded for deposition testimony involving Michael Holt in A Gibson’s action against Keziah Holt and another incompletely described case.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
November 1798 term
People

Reading note: The second commission’s witness and case relationship were unclear.

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 483
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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