Greene County, NC - Court - Ormond vs Faircloth, 1804

428 – ORMOND vs FAIRCLOTH

NC Supreme Court found at the NC Archives, Raleigh, NC

New Bern District – Jan Term 1804 – Greene Co

Regarding the ownership of a Negro – it was the property of William 
Faircloth, dec at his death and came into the hands of his 
administrator – Benjamin Sheppard obtained two judgments against the 
adm in the Court of Lenoir – then writs in Glasgow County – Negro 
allotted to the def

Subsequent term in Jan 1793 the sheriff of Glasgow sold the Negro at a 
private sale to John Grimsley for the full worth – Grimsley had the 
Negro for about 4 years and devised him to his daughter the wife of the 
plf – the plf had him in his possession until May 1802 when the def 
took him – jury instructed that the sale was not valid because it was 
done at a private Sheriff's sale - plf moved for a new trail because of 
the instructions to the jury

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