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Orange County Indexed

Jury

May 1779 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Thirty named jurors were appointed for next court and ordered summoned.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
May 1779 term
Jurors
Michael Holt; Edward Gwinn; Robt. Rice; John Woods; John Gant; Henry Hastings; Thomas Odean; Robert Campbell; John Holt; George Holt; John Trousdale; John Allen; William Williams; Henry Morris; Edward Trice; Timothy Cain; John Graves; William Gavin; Wm. Clendenning; William Murrow; William Clark; William Stroud; Benj. Rhodes; William Dunnegan; Edward Garrard; John Moore; James Murrow; Robert Wilson; Jesse Nevil; William Rhodes
Other dates
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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 36 (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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