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Orange County Indexed

Livestock mark: Mary Doherty

February 1795 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Mary Doherty registered her livestock earmark.

Kind of business
Livestock mark
Court
February 1795 term
People
The court’s words
“a smoothe cross off both Ears with three Slits in each”

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 636
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1795 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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