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Orange County Indexed

County business: Samuel Parks

23 August 1785 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Constable Samuel Parks received 30 shillings for warning Chatham inhabitants to submit taxable lists.

Kind of business
County business
Court
August 1785 term, 23 August 1785
People
Places
Chatham District
Amounts
30 sh.

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 9-251½
  • 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 9 (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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