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Orange County Indexed

Tax

May 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Tapley Patterson was appointed to receive taxable-property lists for St. Marks District.

Kind of business
Tax
Court
May 1778 term
Justices
John Tapley Patterson
Places
St. Marks District

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 21-41½
  • 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 19 (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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