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Orange County Indexed

Jury

March 1755 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court selected grand and petit jurors for the Supreme Court’s May session.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
March 1755 term
Grand jury
John Laspie (?); John Rhodes; John King; William Blackwood; Joseph Barbee; Joseph Pinson
Jurors
Timothy Terrel; Lodowick Clap; Samuel Donaldson; Robert Kilgore; Benjamin Cade; Zachariah Cade
Other dates
4th Tuesday in May next

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 26-52'
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 15
  • 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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