Skip to content
Orange County Public Library (opens the library’s website in a new tab)

Orange County Indexed

Tax

3 March 1792 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court required collectors to remit cash taxes to the trustee, who was to pay county orders chronologically instead of accepting collectors’ vouchers.

Kind of business
Tax
Court
February 1792 term, 3 March 1792

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 407
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1792 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).
Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026