Suit: Whitted, Yarbrough, Browning

The jury rejected payment and setoff and awarded damages; Benjamin Peeler and John Copley secured a stay of execution.

Kind of business

Suit

Court

August 1809 term, 29 August 1809

People

• Whitted (plaintiff)
• Yarbrough (plaintiff)
• Browning (defendant)
• Copley (defendant)
• Benjamin Peeler (surety)
• John Copley (surety)

Amounts

£2.2/

Reading note: The principal amount was blank. The source referred to an earlier jury without repeating its names; verdict text was not treated as names.

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 562
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1809 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).