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Orange County Indexed

Jury

May 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court ordered the sheriff to summon jurors for the next August term.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
May 1796 term
Jurors
Page Patterson; Ezekail Trice; Wm Trice; Hardy Morgan; Jarrot Morgan; Edm’d Jones; Edw’d Jones; Zach Herendon; Benj Herendon; Francis Barbee; Jn Bragg; James Lapslie; Jno Wilkinson; Stephen Thompson; Edw’d Trice; Wm Clark; Caleb Harvey; Owen Lindley; Henry Nail; Rob’t Morrison; Tho Lindley; Eli Harvey; James Woody; Geo Laws Jr; Elias Turner ?r; Jno Taylor Eno; Dav’d Gilson; Barney Lapsley; Thomas Howard
Other dates
4th monday of August next

Reading note: Tho Lindley’s parent was unreadable; Elias Turner’s suffix was uncertain. 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 100
  • 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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