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Suit: Joseph Courtney, Allison Williams, Absalom Tatom

2 March 1799 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court appointed commissioners to divide lands into four shares in Joseph Courtney’s partition case against Allison Williams.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
February 1799 term, 2 March 1799
People
Other dates
fourth Monday of May next
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/639: February 1795 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/554: May 1794 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/51: November 1795 term →
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OCPQS 5/527: February 1799 term →
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OCPQS 5/551: May 1799 term →
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OCPQS 6/315: August 1802 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 533
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1799 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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