Orange County Indexed
Suit: Augustus Benton, William Augustus Richards
August 1800 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
After jurors established William Augustus Richards’s debt, the court ordered his escheated University land sold to pay Augustus Benton’s claim and expenses.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- August 1800 term
- People
- Augustus Benton (plaintiff)
- William Augustus Richards (deceased)
- Jurors
- Samuel Chambers; William Moore; Robert Moore; Jonathan Nichols; Thomas Holden; Isaac Holden; Sherwood Allen; James Mason; James Roney; James Kirk; Henry Neal; Parham S Kirk
- Places
- Village of the University
- Amounts
- £51.2/3; Fifty One pounds two Shillings & three pence
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 37
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
