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Suit: Elizabeth Brooks, Andrew Brooks, Tho Brooks

29 November 1810 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The jury upheld Thomas Brooks’s will for personal property but rejected it as a will of real estate.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
November 1810 term, 29 November 1810
People
Jurors
William Parish; Nathaniel Harris; James Johnston; Fielding Lewis; John Fossett; Henry Albright; George Foust; Jeremiah Hubbard; William Hall; Anderson Stroud; James Herndon; Samuel Hunter

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 128
  • 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).
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