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Tavern license: John Whitney, Eusebius B ? nell

May 1784 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Whitney received a tavern license at his Hillsborough dwelling, bonded with Eusebius B? nell.

Kind of business
Tavern license
Court
May 1784 term
People
Places
his dwelling house in Hillsborough

Reading note: The security’s surname was partly unreadable and printed with a question mark and gap.

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 42-201
  • 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 30 (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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