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Official appointed

June 1757 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Commissions as justices of the peace were recorded for the listed men.

Kind of business
Official appointed
Court
June 1757 term
Justices
James Watson; Alexander Mebane; John Gray; John Pryor; Joseph Boggs; Lawrence Thompson; Josias Dixon; John Patterson; James Allison; Andrew Mitchel; Lawrence Banckson; John McGee; Thomas Loyd; William Reed; William Churton; Robert Abercromby; Hugh Porter; Jacob Brooks

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 56-112'
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 34
  • 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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