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Court in session: Wm. Ray

9 February 1781 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A special court met to correct an entry-taker tax error concerning Capt. Wm. Ray’s property in St. Marys District.

Kind of business
Court in session
Court
February 1781 term, 9 February 1781
People
Justices
James Carrington; John T. Patterson; John Ray
Places
St. Marys District
Other dates
February 9, 1781

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 50-100
  • 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 54 (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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