Orange County Indexed
Suit: Andrew Murdock, Brown Mebane
25 February 1801 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Andrew Murdock won slander damages against Brown Mebane after jurors rejected justification and limitation defenses.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- February 1801 term, 25 February 1801
- People
- Andrew Murdock (plaintiff)
- Brown Mebane (defendant)
- Jurors
- Thomas Latta; James Latta; James Kirk; Archibald Campbell; James Lapsley; Anderson Stroud; Wm Forsyth; John Stroud; James Phillips; Wm Holt; John Daniel; John Wheeler
- Amounts
- £25
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 130
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1801 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).
