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Orange County Indexed

Tavern license: Jacob Richards, James Williams, John Taylor

25 August 1784 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Jacob Richards received a tavern license at his Hillsborough dwelling, bonded with James Williams and John Taylor.

Kind of business
Tavern license
Court
August 1784 term, 25 August 1784
People
Places
his now dwelling house in Hillsborough

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 47-211½
  • 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 33 (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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