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Suit: Hall, Ray, Hugh Riggs

26 May 1807 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Jurors found Hugh Riggs detained the claimed obligation within three years, valued it and awarded Hall and Ray nominal damages.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
May 1807 term, 26 May 1807
People
Jurors
James McCaddams; Isaac Durham; William Hobson; James Curry; John Workman; James Wilkerson; Fredrick Taylor; James Hutcheson; Robert Stewart; Robert Morrow; Sam’l Craig; James Faucett
Amounts
£125; 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 7, page 279
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1807 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 30004, “County Court Minutes, 1805–1814” (State Archives film).
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