Official appointed: Jno Rives, Wm Mebane, Rich’d C???

Jno Rives received a county appointment and posted the required bond with three sureties.

Kind of business

Official appointed

Court

November 1795 term

People

• Jno Rives (official)
• Wm Mebane (surety)
• Rich’d C??? (surety)
• Thomas Lynch (surety)

Places

Orange

Amounts

£3000

Reading note: The office appeared as “Comerster?” and one surety’s surname was unreadable. One or more personal names or identifying annotations were uncertain in the transcription.

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 5, page 54
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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 30003, “County Court Minutes, 1795–1804” (State Archives film).