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State case: John Hopkins

May 1779 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Hopkins faced a state trespass case before twelve named jurors.

Kind of business
State case
Court
May 1779 term
People
Jurors
Abram Whiticar; Robert Baldridge; James Murdoch; James Baldridge; Peter Writisman; David Craig; William ?; John Taylor; Wm. Couch; John Young; William Comb; Thomas Connelly
The court’s words
“Trespass”

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 34-68
  • 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 35 (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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