State case: Abner Tapp, Stephen R????, Hugh Mulhollan

The jury acquitted Abner Tapp; the court found the named prosecution witnesses material and directed payment without stating amounts.

Kind of business

State case

Court

November 1809 term, 29 November 1809

People

• Abner Tapp (defendant)
• Stephen R???? (witness)
• Hugh Mulhollan (witness)
• Morgan Hart (witness)
• John Umstead (witness)
• Joseph Stubbins (witness)
• Mary Thompson (witness)

Jurors

Joseph Steel; Exum Elliott; Samuel Nelson; Robert Thompson; John Brown; James Tate; Allen Edwards; David Gilston; Abram Craig; Israel Holt; William Morrow; William Hobson

Reading note: The payment list ended before amounts were supplied. One or more names or identifying annotations were uncertain in the transcription.

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 592
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).