Orange County Indexed
County business
May 1779 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
At Edward Wilson’s request, the court recorded that his eleven-year-old son William lost the upper part of his right ear to a mare’s bite.
- Kind of business
- County business
- Court
- May 1779 term
- People
- William Wilson (age 11 years)
- Edward Wilson (his father)
- Other dates
- 12th instant
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 33-66
- 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 34 (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).
