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Suit: Sterling Harris, Geo Carrington, John D Carrington

February 1818 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The jury found the defendants liable in Sterling Harris’s ejectment action and awarded damages and costs.

Kind of business
Suit
Court
February 1818 term
People
Jurors
Baxter Davis; Hugh McCaddams; Abner Bailiff; Miles Wallis; William Clark; John Mason; Finney Heart; William Wilson; Joseph Stout; James Palmer; Jarratt Yeargain; Henry Lloyd
Amounts
6d

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 447
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1818 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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