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Orange County Indexed

Jury

August 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Thirty-one printed juror names were listed for the next county court on the fourth Monday in November.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
August 1778 term
Jurors
Peter Stroud; Thomas Connelly; David Craig; John Craig; John Pattin; Edward Wilson; David Douglass; William Phillips; Lewis Kirk; John Stroud; Edwards; Henry ODaniel; Henry Hasting; George Miller; William Whithead; Abraham Nelson; John Baker; Benj. Blake; Edward Trice; Thomas Meredith; Wm. Clark; John Armstrong; Thos. Clark; Charles Horton; John Carrington; Joseph Carrington; Joseph Thompson; James Hart; Mich'l. Holt; William Williams; John Powell
Other dates
4th Monday in November 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 27-54
  • 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 25 (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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