Orange County Indexed
Official appointed: James Cearson, John Taylor, John Brooks
29 November 1786 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
James Cearson was appointed temporary coroner to investigate John Brooks’s death in jail while John Taylor was absent.
- Kind of business
- Official appointed
- Court
- November 1786 term, 29 November 1786
- People
- James Cearson (official; esq., Coronor pro tempore)
- John Taylor (official; Enoe, Coronor)
- John Brooks (deceased)
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 42-316
- 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).
