Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Jury

February 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The sheriff was ordered to summon fourteen named jurors for Hillsborough district superior court on March twenty-first.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
February 1778 term
Jurors
George Allen; David Edwards; William Trousdale; Robt. Hunter; Richard Bennehan; James Scarlett; William Alston; Gilbert Strahorn; Joseph Thompson; William (?); William Jamison; Sackville Brewer; John Hart; John Gattis
Places
District of Hillsborough
Other dates
21st Day of March next

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 19-37
  • 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 16 (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).
Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026