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Orange County Indexed

Tax: Samuel Shaw, John Christmas, Thos. Thompson

May 1780 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Justices were appointed to receive taxable-property lists, with three assessors for Caswell District & Orange District (Samuel Shaw, John Christmas, Thos. Thompson).

Kind of business
Tax
Court
May 1780 term
People
Justices
John Steel; James Freeland
Places
Caswell District & Orange District

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 45-90
  • 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 48 (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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