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Orange County Indexed

Estate account: John Tapley Patterson

24 February 1783 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Tapley Patterson’s executors were ordered to rent estate lands annually, hire out unnamed enslaved people and report at next court.

Kind of business
Estate account
Court
February 1783 term, 24 February 1783
People
Other dates
from year to year; next 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 13-142
  • 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 10 (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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