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Tavern license: Samuel Stewart, Hugh Smith, Cairns Tinnen

March 1758 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Samuel Stewart received permission to operate a tavern at his Corbintown home, secured by Hugh Smith and Cairns Tinnen.

Kind of business
Tavern license
Court
March 1758 term
People
Places
Corbintown

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 69-137'
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 41
  • 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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