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Administration of an estate: Robert Williams, John Co????, Catlet Campbell

May 1803 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Administration of the estate of Robert Williams granted to John Co????; sureties Catlet Campbell and Abner B Bruce.

Kind of business
Administration of an estate
Court
May 1803 term
People
Amounts
£5000
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/423: May 1803 term →

Reading note: The administrator’s surname was incomplete; a later sale order named John Casey. 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 421
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1803 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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