Orange County Indexed
Court in session
August 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The county court opened its sitting with justices James Carson, Absalom Tatom, Sterling Harris and 4 others present.
- Kind of business
- Court in session
- Court
- August 1797 term
- Justices
- James Carson; Absalom Tatom; Sterling Harris; John Hogg; James Christmas; James Baldridge; John Taylor
Reading note: The heading called August 29 Wednesday; the term opening dated Monday August 28.
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 275
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
