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Orange County Indexed

Guardianship: Samuel Benton, John Wilson, Lewis Jones

February 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

On Samuel Benton’s motion for John Wilson, guardian Lewis Jones was summoned concerning Mary Wilson, Sam’l Wilson and Gregory Wilson.

Kind of business
Guardianship
Court
February 1794 term
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/199: May 1789 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/123: August 1796 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/181: February 1797 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/301: August 1797 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/307: August 1797 term →

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 537
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1794 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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