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Orange County Indexed

Jury

May 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Thirty named jurors were appointed to attend next court.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
May 1778 term
Jurors
Cairns Tinning; Thomas Lapsley; Robert Rea; Wm. Stroud; Jesse Nevil; William Parton; Gilbert Strahorn; Wm. Nunn; Benjamin Rhodes; John Morgan; Wm. Cain; Wm. Comb; Wm. Dunnegan; Wm. Alston; Joseph Allison; James Murdoch; William Jameson; Laurance Thompson; Peter Whitman; Andrew Mitchell; Edward Harris; John Taylor; Stephen Lloyd; John Gutters; Mark Patterson; Benjamin Forrester; Hugh Wood; Patrick Rutherford; Thomas Linch; James Bird
Other dates
next Court

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 22-45½
  • 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 21 (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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