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Orange County Indexed

Jury

May 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court recorded a jury panel with some members excused.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
May 1796 term
Jurors
Christmas; James Craig; James Wilson; Eli Hill; Dan’l Booth; Christopher Barbee; James Nelson; Wm Rhodes; Dan’l Cloud; Henry Haisting; Zachariah Herendon; Reuben Burrows; James Ray; Joseph Courtny; Enuch Collins; John Pugh; Henry Mason; Charles Dunnegan; James Watson; Peter Wrightsman; John Thompson; Thomas McCulloch; Benj Yeargan; John Kenneday; And[re] McCulloch; Benjamin Rhodes

Reading note: Opening text “The Sheriff Christmas” was incomplete; Christmas’s given name was not supplied.

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 81
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1796 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).
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