Courthouse and jail: Lemuel Benton, James Walker, Sterling Harris

Commissioners examined Sterling Harris’s public-building accounts and reported a remaining balance.

Kind of business

Courthouse and jail

Court

May 1800 term, 28 May 1800

People

• Lemuel Benton (commissioner)
• James Walker (commissioner)
• Sterling Harris (official)

Amounts

Nine hundred & Ninety Seven Pounds seven shillings & eight pence; Nine hundred & Sixty nine pounds seven shillings; Twenty Eight pounds and Eight pence

Elsewhere in the minutes

OCPQS 6/22

Elsewhere in the minutes

OCPQS 6/21

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 6, page 21
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1800 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).