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Orange County Indexed

Tax: Jas Nelson

2 March 1791 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court allowed collector Jas Nelson insolvent-tax credits for eleven polls and seven hundred acres.

Kind of business
Tax
Court
February 1791 term, 2 March 1791
People
Places
St Mary’s
Amounts
eleven poles; seven hundred acres

Reading note: The verb describing presentation of the list was partly unreadable.

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 329
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1791 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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