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Orange County Indexed

Jury

28 November 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The record listed prospective jurors without an accompanying summons order.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
November 1788 term, 28 November 1788
Jurors
Wm Ray Jr; James Stockard; John Ray; George Loy; Henery Albright; Aron Sharp Jr; Nathan Wells; Wm Sheppard; Wm Hall; Wm Cabe; Richard Fossett; Samuel Thompson; Richard Benehan; Allexander Underwood; Daniel Freeman; William Whitted Jr; John Pike; James Hogg; John Shaddey; William Dunagin; John Collins; George Daniel; Joseph Hart; Thos Trice; Nicholas Davis; Benj’n Hearndon; William Brown Sr; John Linn; John Homes; James Woody

Reading note: The detached list was read as a venire from its correspondence to the next term’s returned panel; the empty position was not filled.

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 182
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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