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Tax: David Anderson

25 February 1782 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

David Anderson received a tax exemption because of disabling wartime wounds, poverty and family need.

Kind of business
Tax
Court
February 1782 term, 25 February 1782
People
  • David Anderson (taxpayer; disabled by wounds received in the defense of his Country)

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 54-109
  • 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 58 (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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