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Orange County Indexed

Jury

February 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The sheriff returned the venire listing the summoned jurors.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
February 1788 term
Jurors
Jo Thompson; Jno Breeze; Abram Thompson; Ro Tinnen; Wm Wallace; Sampson Wood; Richard Cates; Elias Turner; Charles Dunnagin; Thomas Trice; Zachariah Herendon; Richard Lee; Wm Shepperd; Jacob Beason; James Freeland Jr; Thomas Strain; James McAdams; James Tinnen; Wm Galbreath; Matthew Rippy; Wm Bowls; John Carter; Enoch Bradley; Wm Andrews; Jesse Towel; James Ball; Wm Murry; Edward Wortham; James Moore; James Watson; John Carrington; Jno Douglass; Isaac Jackson; Geo Newton; John Horne; Wm Woodey; Isaac Holt; Pat Henry

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 103
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1788 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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