Orange County Indexed
Suit: Ruth Roberts, Benjamin Barbee
August 1808 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The jury awarded Ruth Roberts damages and costs for Benjamin Barbee’s unpaid promise; she released further claims for her child’s support.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- August 1808 term
- People
- Ruth Roberts (plaintiff)
- Benjamin Barbee (defendant)
- Jurors
- George Faucett; John Stroud; Anderson Stroud; George Pratt; William Forsyth; Robert Murdock; John Thompson; James Murdock; Isaac Lint; Thomas Bird; Matthew Patton; John Workman
- Amounts
- £10
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 435
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1808 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).
