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Orange County Indexed

County business

June 1757 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Wm Reed proved an account for feeding fifty-six Catawba travelers returning from Virginia and providing corn for eleven horses.

Kind of business
County business
Court
June 1757 term
People
Places
Virginia
Amounts
£ 2., 1d; 56; eleven horses
Other dates
since last March Court

Reading note: The monetary notation is indistinct; best reading £2 and 1d, with no clear shilling amount.

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 59-117
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 36
  • 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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