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- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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George Laws becomes a deputy sheriff of Orange County
Laws, a carpenter in his early years, became a deputy sheriff in 1829, the start of more than forty years in county offices at Hillsborough.
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George Laws becomes clerk of the Orange County court
Laws succeeded Joseph Allison as clerk of the county court of pleas and quarter sessions at Hillsborough. Under the 1868 constitution he became clerk of the superior court and judge of probate.
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George Laws carries the Orange magistrates' petition for a jury court to Governor Holden
With no courts open in the county after the Confederate surrender, the magistrates appointed by the provisional governor petitioned for a jury court twice a year. Laws carried the petition to Governor William W. Holden, who refused it.
People: William W. Holden
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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George Laws chairs the stewards of the Hillsborough Methodist church
In 1866, when Hillsborough Station took in Hillsborough, Cedar Grove, Walnut Grove, Lebanon and New Sharon, Laws was chairman of its Board of Stewards. As treasurer in 1867 he told members that if they wanted preaching they must pay for it.
Subject: Hillsborough Methodist Church
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Orange County's first elected board of commissioners takes office
Elected in April 1868 at the election that ratified the new constitution, five commissioners qualified at the courthouse and chose Lemuel Lynch chairman, replacing the old county court of justices. Within days the newly elected sheriff, treasurer, register of deeds and clerk of superior court gave their bonds.
People: John U. Kirkland · Jones Watson · David C. Parks · George Laws · Lemuel Lynch
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Hillsborough men ask Governor Holden to commission Pride Jones against the Klan
On March 5, 1870 six Hillsborough men, among them J. W. Norwood, James Webb and Henry K. Nash, recommended to Governor Holden that Pride Jones be made a militia captain to put down night riding. Holden sent the commission on March 7 and Jones accepted on March 9. The raids soon stopped, and Jones resigned after four weeks.
People: William W. Holden · Pride Jones · George Laws
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U.S. Senate committee hears Orange County testimony on Klan violence
A Senate select committee created on January 19, 1871 took testimony in Washington on Klan violence in North Carolina. Orange County witnesses, including Hillsborough constable W. G. Turrentine, court clerk George Laws and editor Josiah Turner Jr., described the 1869 jail raid, hangings and whippings in the county. The committee reported on March 10, 1871.
Part of Racial-terror lynchings in Orange County · 17 events
People: George Laws
Subject: Orange County jail, Hillsborough
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George Laws dies in office as Orange County's clerk of superior court
Laws died in May 1881 while serving as judge of probate and clerk of the superior court of Orange County, after about half a century in the county's service.
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Dr. Pride Jones serves as Orange County clerk of superior court
Dr. Pride Jones followed George Laws, clerk for thirty years, as clerk of the superior court of Orange County and held the office from 1883 to 1888, when Samuel M. Gattis succeeded him.
People: George Laws
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