Jury

Fifteen grand jurors were empanelled and sworn.

Kind of business

Jury

Court

February 1761 term, 17 February 1761

Grand jury

Thomas Stagg; Richard Simpson; Jesse Brashear; Henry Reynolds; Nathaniel Reynolds; Benjamin Carter; Joseph Atkins; John Hunter; William Willson; Alexander Going; Moses Hollis; Hugh Porter; Ephraim Gold; Phillip Preather (?); Thomas Willson

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 46-229'
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 64
• 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).