Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Jury

August 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The sheriff returned the venire with attendance annotations.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
August 1794 term
Jurors
Richard Bennehan; Tho Armstrong; Isaac Jackson; Samuel Nelson; Stephen Ward Sr; Philip Walker; John Pickard Sr; John Forrester; John Thompson; Thomas Lynch; William Streyhorn; Lewis Kirk; William Andrews; Nath’l Morrison; Robert Hodge; Thomas Bradshaw; James Pratt; Joseph Kirkland; Wm Woods; Saml Woods; Abraham Thompson; Joseph Hastings Jr; John Kennady; John Riley; Henry White; Samuel Torrentine; Nath’l Carter; Benjamin Herndon; Leonard Carlton

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 585
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
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