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Orange County Indexed

Mill: John Grisham, James J. Tinning, Henry O'Daniel

February 1779 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Grisham petitioned for a Haw River gristmill; four men were summoned to value one acre each of Grisham’s and Henry Parris’s opposing land.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
February 1779 term
People
Places
Haw River
Amounts
one acre; an acre
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 30-61
  • 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 30 (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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