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Courthouse and jail

May 1792 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Sterling Harris’s account for building and painting the stocks and pillory was allowed, including James Baldridges’s lumber.

Kind of business
Courthouse and jail
Court
May 1792 term
People
Places
Hillsbo
Amounts
£3.18.3; 1.0.0; .5.6; 1.11.6; .5.0; £8.3.
Other dates
1792 May 28

Reading note: The Spanish Brown quantity included an unreadable unit.

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 439
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
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