Orange County Indexed
Suit: John Walker, Mebane, Rainey
August 1804 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Jurors found Mebane and Rainey detained enslaved Dinah within three years and awarded John Walker damages.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- August 1804 term
- People
- John Walker (plaintiff)
- Mebane (defendant)
- Rainey (defendant)
- Dinah (enslaved person)
- Jurors
- Thomas Robinson; Jonathan Thompson; John Holden; Christopher Barbee; Wm McKee; John Morrow; William Forsyth; Andrew Robinson; Robert Carson; Sam’l Ector; John Hady??; Robert Harris
- Amounts
- £250; 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 564
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
