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State case: John Barbee, Rivers Hodges, Edmund Herndon

29 August 1816 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Barbee was fined for failing to testify in Rivers Hodges’s action against Edmund Herndon.

Kind of business
State case
Court
August 1816 term, 29 August 1816
People

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 228
  • 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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