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Orange County Indexed

Jury

August 1782 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Thirty named men were appointed grand and petit jurors for next county court and ordered summoned.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
August 1782 term
Jurors
John Galbreath; Alex Kirkpatrick; Wm. Galbreath; Thomas Roundtree; Wm. Armstrong; James Baldridge; Thomas Thompson; Stephen Wilson; Edward Wortham; Hugh McAdams; George Newton; Richard Fossett; John Kelly; Thomas Trice; Edward Trice; John Weems; Robt. Abercrombie; Mathew Scoby; William Whitehead; Samuel Clenney; Jesse Nevils; Hardy Morgan; Pomfret Herndon; Jno. Strayhorn; Wm. Strayhorn; Jno. Strayn; Wm. Stroud; Wm. Ainsley; Wm. Burns; Wm. Couch
Other dates
next County Court

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 8-132
  • 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 6 (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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