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Official appointed

1 May 1764 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Commissions as justices of the peace were issued to twenty-four named men.

Kind of business
Official appointed
Court
May 1764 term, 1 May 1764
Justices
John Pryor; Lawrence Thompson; John Patterson; James Allison; Andrew Mitchell; John McGee; Thomas Lloyd; William Lea; Richard Parker; Tyrie Harris; David Hart; Francis Nash; Thomas Hart; John King; John Brantley; Richard Simpson; Joseph Barbee; Robert Lytle; James Terry; John Oliver; Thomas Hines; John Sample; Enoch Spinks; John 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 156
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 98
  • 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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