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Orange County Indexed

Livestock mark: George Reaves

November 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

George Reaves registered a livestock earmark: a cropped right ear with three slits and a hole in the left.

Kind of business
Livestock mark
Court
November 1787 term
People

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 81
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
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