Orange County Indexed
Court in session
27 August 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The August county court opened in Hillsborough with three named justices present.
- Kind of business
- Court in session
- Court
- August 1787 term, 27 August 1787
- Justices
- John Taylor; Wm Watters; Wm McCauley
- Places
- County of Orange; Hillsborough
- Other dates
- 27th Day of August; 1787; 20th yr of our Independence
Reading note: The stated twentieth independence year was inconsistent with 1787; the calendar year was retained.
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
- Minute book 4, page 49
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1787 term
- 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).
