August 1803 term

Day not given in the source

• Court in sessionThe court convened with justices Samuel Benton, Isaac Holt and John Cabe present.
• JuryThe court recorded the named men for jury service.
• JuryThe court recorded James Patterson, John Newland, Peter Stout and 12 others for jury service.
• Constable appointedWm Andrews was sworn into office.
• JuryThe court recorded Wm Hobson, Fisher Clendening, William Carter and 2 others for jury service.
• JuryThe court listed jurors who had failed to appear.
• Official appointedReuben Wood was appointed temporary county attorney.
• Official appointedJonathan Lindly took the required oaths as justice of the peace.
• SuitJurors upheld and valued the bond, credited a payment and awarded Samuel Fogleman the balance against Long and Holt.
• SuitJames Baldridge’s executors received a bond balance and damages against Charles Christmas after credits for cash, equipment and surveying.
• JuryJohn Ray was excused from jury attendance after providing sworn reasons.
• SuitJurors found Samuel O’Daniel liable within three years and awarded George Moore damages.
• SuitJurors rejected William Hooker’s promise claim against John Longmire.
• SuitJurors upheld Samuel Thompson’s bond, rejected payment and setoff and awarded Lemuel Cox Jepson damages.
• SuitJurors found unperformed covenants and awarded Peter Jeffers damages against Hastings and Adams.
• SuitJurors rejected payment and setoff and awarded Barney Clapp damages against John and Jacob Boon.
• SuitJohn Kimbrough received damages and costs against Neese and Eisly.
• County businessJoseph Moore and David Mebane were commissioned to take George Allen’s testimony concerning William Mebane’s gift deed to Alexander Mebane.
• Will provedWill of William Mebane, proved by Ross Hutcheson.
• Administration of an estateJames Mebane and Benjamin Rainey qualified as executors for William Mebane’s estate.
• Deed provedDeed, James Holt to George Stafford, proved by Levin Wood.
• Deed provedDeed, Joseph Dixon to John Ray, proved by John Campbell.
• Deed provedDeed, Peter Fogleman to John Long, proved by John Cook.
• Deed provedDeed, Christopher Miers to John Piggott, proved by John Cook.
• Deed provedAgreement, proved by John Cook.
• Deed provedBill of Sale, Samuel Turrentine Shff &c to Samuel Dick, acknowledged in court.
• Deed provedDeed, Samuel Dick to John Ulias, proved by Peter Fogleman.
• Deed provedDeed, Benjamin Rainey to Jacob Troxler, proved by Barnet Troxler.
• Deed provedDeed, John Gant & Elizabeth Phillips to Mason Tapley, proved by Benjamin Rainey.

23 August 1803

• Court in sessionThe court convened with justices Isaac Holt, Jonathan Lindley and Sam’l Benton present.
• SuitJurors found Sam’l Dick liable within three years, rejected justification and awarded Eve Holt damages.
• SuitJurors rejected payment and setoff and awarded Augustus Benton principal, damages and costs against Parham Kirk.
• SuitJurors upheld Samuel Love’s promise, rejected payment and setoff and awarded Matthew McCauley damages.
• State caseNeal Rose’s fine for missing additional-juror attendance was remitted after his affidavit.
• SuitJurors valued the bond and awarded Gideon Granger damages against Sam’l Hopkins and Taylor for breach of its condition.
• SuitJurors valued the bond, rejected payment and setoff and awarded Wilson and E Holt nominal damages against William Fitch.
• SuitHenry Bracken received a balance of principal and interest against Uriah Tate after payment and setoff credits.
• SuitJurors valued Simpson Tate’s bond, rejected payment and setoff and awarded Henry Bracken damages.
• SuitDavid Patterson and others received damages and costs against Mark Fowler.
• SuitTho H and C Perkins received damages and costs against John Sharp Jr.
• SuitWm Shepperd received damages and costs against Arch’d Campbell.
• SuitJurors upheld Joseph Gwinn’s promise, rejected payment and setoff and awarded A and J Forrest damages; judgment followed.
• SuitN and J Forrest received damages against David Vickers after payment and setoff were rejected; judgment also bound his securities.
• SuitJurors rejected James Baldridges’s executors’ promise claim against William F Thompson.
• SuitElias Wilhoit was nonsuited against Robert Dixon; his appeal was allowed with James Wilson and James Mason as securities.
• SuitJurors upheld John Cook’s promise within three years, rejected payment and setoff and awarded James Wilson damages.

24 August 1803

• Court in sessionThe court convened with justices Jonathan Lindly, Joseph Clendening and Walter Alves present.
• County businessDavid Ray, James Yarbro and Abner B Bruce were appointed to settle John Casey’s county-trustee accounts.
• SuitThe court ordered James Kirk’s judgment paid from proceeds of a previously sold, unnamed enslaved person attached in his case against John Kirk.
• State caseJurors convicted Spencer Meachum.
• Estate accountAbner B Bruce and James Yarbro were appointed to settle Susannah Laws’s administration accounts for George Laws’s estate.
• Child support orderThe court ordered Martin Eisley, charged as reputed father, to make support payments to Susannah Boggs for her child.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Malcolm Baldridge granted to Stephen Baldridge; sureties Henry Thompson and John Woods.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Robert Love granted to William Love; sureties Hirum Love and William Fossett.
• Court in sessionThe court convened with justices Wm F Strudwick, James Carson and Sam’l Benton present.
• Road orderJoseph Moore was released from Alex’r Bowland’s road crew because he oversaw another road.
• Child or servant boundThe court apprenticed Elijah Hickman to John Long after finding that his father John Hickman had left the family unsupported.
• Estate accountRebecca Mebane formally dissented from her late husband William Mebane’s will.
• Child or servant boundThe court apprenticed Andrew Faddis to Owen Lindley for instruction in farming.
• SuitIn John Campbell’s attachment, the court ordered bonds returned to Charles Cotton, except Thomas Woods’s bonds, because they had not been legally condemned.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of Jeremiah Taylor granted to Bryant Stroud; sureties Thomas Lloyd and William Forsyth.
• Child or servant boundThe court apprenticed Anderson Woods to George Faucett for instruction in farming.
• Administration of an estateAdministration of the estate of William Courtney granted to John Moore; sureties Joseph Moore and William Kirkland.
• GuardianshipDavid Ray became guardian of Peter Lempkins Ray.
• Child or servant boundThe court apprenticed Jesse Smith to William Forsythe for instruction in tailoring.
• Child or servant boundThe court apprenticed David Ivey to John Hubbard for instruction in tailoring.
• GuardianshipMary Jamerson selected John Jameson as her guardian; he furnished bond with approved securities.
• Estate accountWilliam Eccles and William Bradford received a percentage allowance for managing John King’s estate.
• Official appointedJames Child was appointed county ranger.
• Deed provedDeed of Gift, William Mebane to William Brown Mebane, proved by Joseph Terrell?.
• Deed provedDeed, James Dunnagan to Charles Dunnagan, proved by James Latta Jr.
• Deed provedBill of Sale, James Moore, Mary Moore, John Moore & James Moore to John O’Daniel, proved by John Murray.
• Deed provedBill of Sale, William Riley to Stephen Carroll, proved by Henry Bunch.
• Deed provedDeed, Joseph Stubbins to Wm Whitted, acknowledged in court.