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Administration of an estate: Coo[n]rod Messer Smith, Samuel Turrentine, Alexander Turrentine

29 November 1799 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Administration of the estate of Coo[n]rod Messer Smith granted to Samuel Turrentine; sureties Alexander Turrentine and William Clark.

Kind of business
Administration of an estate
Court
November 1799 term, 29 November 1799
People
Amounts
£100
In the will books

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 629
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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