Orange County Indexed
Suit: James Pickard, Melden Chavers
May 1811 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The jury awarded James Pickard damages and costs; payment by the garnishee to John Pickard satisfied the debt.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- May 1811 term
- People
- James Pickard (plaintiff)
- Melden Chavers (defendant)
- John Pickard
- Jurors
- Thomas Armstrong; Moses Lynch; Mason Tapley; Ross Hutchinson; Volentine Moore; Francis Barbee; James Cain; James McClure; Richmond Harris; John Crawford; James Kirk; Israel Holt
- Amounts
- £37.191.11
Reading note: The damages figure was malformed; the payment recipient John differed from plaintiff James Pickard.
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 187
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1811 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).
