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Suit: Wm Hall, William McKee

August 1816 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The jury found William McKee liable in Wm Hall’s ejectment action for land south of the line depicted on the filed plat.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
August 1816 term
People
Jurors
George Reeves; David Bradford; David Cloud; Edmund Herndon; Thomas Hatch; Henry Neal; Joel Cloud; Willis Sellars; Daniel Cloud; John McDaniel; Israel Holt; Levi Whitted

Reading note: The boundary description ended in an unreadable word; Den was the formal fictitious plaintiff.

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 217
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1816 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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