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Suit: William Laws, Thomas Laws

February 1815 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The jury found a balance owing to William Laws’s administrators after offsets, but found Thomas Laws’s administrators had fully administered and held no assets.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
February 1815 term
People
Jurors
Joseph Harder; Samuel Turrentine; John Cain; Francis Barbee; James Forsyth; William McCaddams; Young Dortch; John Workman; Henry Forrest; Goodman Nevill; John Nichols; Thomas Murdock
Amounts
£76.9.3

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 9, page 13
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1815 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 30005, “County Court Minutes, 1815–1826” (State Archives film).
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