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Suit: Benjamin Williams, John Rhodes

24 November 1801 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Jurors upheld the defendants’ bond, rejected satisfaction and release, and assessed Augustus Benton’s damages in Benjamin Williams’s action against John Rhodes.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
November 1801 term, 24 November 1801
People
Jurors
Daniel Watson; James Patterson; Henry Long; William Hobbs; John Bason; John Holden; Robert Moore; William Hogan; Robert Carson; Thomas Holden; Abner Tapp; John Milliken
Amounts
£15.5/9

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 243
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
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