Jury

The sheriff returned the venire, and fifteen named grand jurors were sworn.

Kind of business

Jury

Court

November 1785 term, 28 November 1785

Grand jury

Thomas Trice; Geo. Reeves; Anderson Comer; Garrett Garrison; Wm. Shepherd; Dan'l. Watson; Benj. Roney; Wm. Burns; Stephen Lloyd; Jno. Meachum; Abijah Massey; Wm. Bracken; Christopher Barbee; Wm. Moreland; Jno. Weams

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 13-258½
• 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 13 (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).