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Orange County Indexed

Jury

2 March 1785 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The sheriff was ordered to summon jurors Wm. Whitehead, John Kelley, Edward Grisham and 27 others for next county court.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
February 1785 term, 2 March 1785
Jurors
Wm. Whitehead; John Kelley; Edward Grisham; Jno. Douglas; Wm. Caine; Jno. Caine; Wm. Cabe; Alexander Borland; Thomas Taylor; Jno. Taylor; Francis Wilkinson; Joseph Thompson; Mark Patterson; Wm. Anderson; John Anderson; David Anderson; Robert Hunter; David Scoby; Andrew Murdoch; James Mebane; David Mebane; Jno. Mebane; Robt. Nelson; Timothy Hews; Wm. Jimmison; Archer Harris; James Watson; Edward Wortham; James Moore; Jno. Mitchel
Amounts
30
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 57-232
  • 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 37 (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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