Suit: Robert Levi, Sam’l Hopkins, Ovus

The jury found administration substantially completed, identified remaining assets including enslaved Ovus, and preserved Robert Levi’s right to pursue the administrator and sureties.

Kind of business

Suit

Court

November 1810 term, 27 November 1810

People

• Robert Levi (plaintiff)
• Sam’l Hopkins (defendant)
• Ovus (enslaved person)
• F Nash (attorney)
• John Craig

Amounts

£13.14.2; £257.14.3; £13.11.2

Reading note: The estate’s decedent and Ovus’s enslaver were unnamed. The receipt amount differed from the remaining cash figure. Robert Levi acted as guardian.

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 8, page 119
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1810 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).