Orange County Indexed
Court in session
May 1777 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court opened under Richard Caswell’s commission appointing justices; eight appointees took the required oaths, subscribed the test and took their seats.
- Kind of business
- Court in session
- Court
- May 1777 term
- People
- Richard Caswell (Esq. Governor)
- Justices
- Thomas Hart; John Butler; Alexander Mebane; James Freeland; Alexander Mebane; John Hogan; Charles Abercrombie; Robert Abercrombie; Richard Bennehan; Nathaniel Rochester; Thomas Taylor; Richard Holliman; Eli McDaniel; Wm. McCauley; Wm. Rainey; John Hawkins; Hugh Tinning; Wm. Courtney; John Nichols; John Steel; John Rory; Wm. Cain; Nath'l. Rochester
- Other dates
- 4th. Tuesday in May 1777
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 1-1
- Published abstract: Alma Cheek Redden, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Orange County, N.C., 1777–1788, page 1 (Orange County Public Library, NC 929.375 HAU)
- 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 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
