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Suit: Absalom Holt, John McCaddam

27 August 1799 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Jurors found that John McCaddam had not made the promise alleged by Absalom Holt.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
August 1799 term, 27 August 1799
People
Jurors
James Wilson; Tho Fitch; David Faucett; Sam’l Cole; Benjamin Jackson; Sam’l Carson; John Copley; Tho Browning; Francis Wilkerson; Jas Wilkerson; James Dunnagan; Wm Strayhorn

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 591
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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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