Orange County Indexed
Court in session
February 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The county court opened its sitting with justices James Carson, John Thompson, Benjamin Lacey and 5 others present.
- Kind of business
- Court in session
- Court
- February 1797 term
- Justices
- James Carson; John Thompson; Benjamin Lacey; Walter Alves; Sterling Harris; Empson Bird; James Christmas; Absalum Tatom
Reading note: The heading called March 4 Friday, following Friday March 3; the source date was retained.
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 186
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1797 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).
