Orange County Indexed
Suit: Thomas Sellars, Peter Brinkley, Peter Brinkley Senr
May 1817 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The jury found that Peter Brinkley Senr obtained the disputed grant and died owning the land.
- Kind of business
- Suit
- Court
- May 1817 term
- People
- Thomas Sellars (plaintiff)
- Peter Brinkley (defendant)
- Peter Brinkley Senr (deceased)
- Jurors
- Josiah Thompson; John Johnston; Enoch McPherson; Turner McCaddams; Robert Hunter; William Bradford; William Anderson; Samuel Allen; William Murray; William Jordan; Ross Hutcheson; Samuel Hodge
Reading note: The verdict’s agreement and payment findings were partly illegible; Sellars’s wife was unnamed.
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 325
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1817 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).
