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Jury

26 August 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The sheriff was directed to summon jurors Archibald Campbell, Wm Kirk, Benjamin Lacy and 32 others for the court’s stated next May term.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
August 1789 term, 26 August 1789
Jurors
Archibald Campbell; Wm Kirk; Benjamin Lacy; John Grimes; Nicholas Harden; John Hogan; Sackfield Brewer; Benjamin Peelor; Ro Hunter; Joseph Hodge; Geo Hodge; Thomas Holgan; Stephen White; John O’Dannel; James Ball; John Carter; James Mebane; Thomas Mulhollan; Edw’d Wilson; John Caine; Barnet Grimes; Tho Gwinn; Alexander McKee; Wm McKee; Henry Thompson; Hugh Findley; John Carrington; John Pickard; Edward Pick??; Alexander Anderson; Thomas Lindley; James Newland; Alexander Kirkpatrick; Abner Piper; Pumphret Herendon
Other dates
4th Monday of May next

Reading note: The order appeared in August 1789 but specified next May; Edward Pick?? was incomplete.

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 228
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1789 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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