Orange County Indexed
Suit: Susannah Leath, Joseph Street, Jack
May 1804 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Jurors found Joseph Street detained enslaved Jack within three years and awarded Susannah Leath damages.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- May 1804 term
- People
- Susannah Leath (plaintiff)
- Joseph Street (defendant)
- Jack (enslaved person)
- Jurors
- Henry O’Daniel; Joseph Thompson; William Hogan; William Baker; James Davis; John Walker; James Wilson; Robert Morrow; Thos McCracken; Henry Nail; Andrew McCleary; Samuel Couch
- Amounts
- £200; 6d
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 535
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1804 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).
