Orange County Indexed
Courthouse and jail: Samuel Benton, Absalum Tatom, Sterling Harris
February 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court levied taxes to build a Hillsborough jail and appointed Samuel Benton, Absalum Tatom and Sterling Harris to plan and supervise construction.
- Kind of business
- Courthouse and jail
- Court
- February 1797 term
- People
- Samuel Benton (commissioner)
- Absalum Tatom (commissioner)
- Sterling Harris (commissioner)
- Justices
- James Carson; Benjamin Lacey; John Ray; Jno Thompson; Benj Rhodes; Shaderick Forrester; Wm McCauley; Empson Bird; Wm Lytle; Jno Walker; Jas Moore; Francis Moreland
- Places
- Hillsborough; Orange
- Amounts
- 2/; £100; /8d; hundred Acres
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 198
- 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).
