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Orange County Indexed

Tax

24 November 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court imposed county taxes of one shilling per poll, four pence per hundred acres, and one shilling per hundred pounds of town property.

Kind of business
Tax
Court
November 1790 term, 24 November 1790
Amounts
one Shilling; four pence; Hundred acres; hundred pounds
Other dates
1790

Reading note: A short phrase following the land rate was illegible.

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 317
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1790 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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