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Suit: Wm Vestal, Joseph Wheeler, John Wheeler

24 November 1802 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

After Joseph Wheeler caveated probate, jurors rejected the purported will of John Wheeler presented by Wm Vestal.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
November 1802 term, 24 November 1802
People
Jurors
Wm Hall; James Kirk; Tho Rountree; Wm Hobson; Tho Woods; David White; James Moore; David Nutt; Wm Pickett; Jno McCauley; John Moore; John Breeze
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/360: November 1802 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/355

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 355
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
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