Suit: Eli Collins, Henry Fossett

Jurors upheld Henry Fossett’s promise and awarded Eli Collins damages and costs.

Kind of business

Suit

Court

May 1802 term

People

• Eli Collins (plaintiff)
• Henry Fossett (defendant)

Jurors

James Davis; John Lankston; John Paul; Robert Moore; Isaac Bracken; William Trice; Richard Mor??; James Barnhill; Sam’l Whitsell; Sutton Ward; Robert Morrow; Sam’l Riggs

Amounts

£30.13

Reading note: A finding after the promise and juror Richard Mor?? were unreadable. One or more names or identifying annotations were uncertain in the transcription.

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 285
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1802 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).