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Court in session

December 1752 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The December court convened at Marmaduke Kimbrough’s home with justices Lawrence Banckson, James Allison, Joseph Tate and 3 others present.

Kind of business
Court in session
Court
December 1752 term
People
Justices
Lawrence Banckson; James Allison; Joseph Tate; James Dickey; Andrew Mitchel; Thomas Lovelatty
Places
home of Marmaduke Kimbrough

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

  • Folio and page 2-3
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 2
  • 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 30001, “County Court Minutes, 1752–1766” (State Archives film).
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