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Official appointed: Alex. Mebane

November 1777 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Alex. Mebane Junior gave Governor Caswell a thousand-pound bond for one year as sheriff.

Kind of business
Official appointed
Court
November 1777 term
People
Amounts
1000 pounds
Other dates
27th May 1777

Reading note: Earlier sheriff bond appears in the bond pages after November minutes; the exact bond date is retained separately from the enclosing term.

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 12-24 to 12-28
  • 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 11 (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).
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