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Jury

February 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court ordered jurors David Denning, James Wilson Newhope, Baxter King and 27 others summoned for the next term.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
February 1797 term
Jurors
David Denning; James Wilson Newhope; Baxter King; John Cabe; John Long; Philip Walker; Jacob Marshall; James Pickhart; Benjamin Rhodes; Richard Holman; William Mangum; James Bracken; James Roney; William Rhodes; Robert Thompson; Eli Hill; William Strayhorn; Eli Hervey; Thomas Carter; Pomfort Herendon; John Scott; William Craig; Thomas Holloway; Abram Anderson; James Walker; James Cain; Isaac Neely; Ephraim Frazier; George Madden; James Clendennen
Other dates
fourth Monday of May

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 188
  • 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).
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