Official appointed

The sixteen named appointees had qualified and taken the required oaths as justices of the peace.

Kind of business

Official appointed

Court

June 1753 term, 12 June 1753

Justices

James Watson; Alexander Mebane; James Dickey; John Gray; Lawrence Bankson; Mark Morgan; John Patterson; Andrew Mitchel; John Pitman; James Allison; Marmaduke Kimbrough; Josias Dixon; Joseph Boggs; John Pryor; John Gordon; Lawrence Thompson

Other dates

2nd Tuesday in June (12th day) 1752

Reading note: Shields’s abstract dates this list the second Tuesday in June, the 12th day, 1752. The county’s first court sat in September 1752, and the second Tuesday of June fell on the 12th in 1753, where the abstract places the list, at the opening of the June 1753 court.

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 4-7'
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 4
• 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).