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Jury

August 1761 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Grand jurors Hugh Porter, Robert Taylor, John Taylor and 16 others were empanelled and sworn.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
August 1761 term
Grand jury
Hugh Porter; Robert Taylor; John Taylor; John Douglas; Alexander Murahin (?); Nathaniel Walton; John Tinnen; James Hart; Francis Wilkinson; John Slater; Robert Patterson; Charles Johnson; Edward Stone; John Barbee; Isaac Collins; Alexander Nelson; Robert Marsh; William Rhodes; William Lea

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 57-251'
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 70
  • 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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