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Orange County Indexed

Jury

May 1785 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Fourteen grand jurors were sworn after the sheriff returned the venire.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
May 1785 term
Grand jury
Wm. Cain; Wm. Whitehead; John Kelley; Edw. Grisham; Wm. Cabe; Thomas Taylor; Francis Wilkinson; Mark Patterson; Jno. Anderson; David Anderson; Rob. Hunter; Rob. Nelson; Wm. Jamison; Wm. Anderson

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 4-241
  • 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 4 (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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