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Estate account: John Riggs, Ezekiel Laws, William Riggs

30 May 1811 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

On the named contestants’ objections, the court directed a trial of John Riggs’s purported will.

Kind of business
Estate account
Court
May 1811 term, 30 May 1811
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 8/271: November 1811 term →

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 204
  • 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).
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