Orange County Indexed
Official appointed: Abner Benton Bruce, Morgan Hart, Jno Umstead
August 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
After Samuel Benton presented Abner Benton Bruce’s resignation, Morgan Hart was elected clerk, qualified and delivered his bonds to James Carson.
- Kind of business
- Official appointed
- Court
- August 1797 term
- People
- Samuel Benton
- Abner Benton Bruce (clerk)
- Morgan Hart (clerk)
- Jno Umstead (surety)
- William Strudwick (surety)
- Wm Sheperd (surety)
- Justices
- James Carson
- Amounts
- Two thousand pounds
Reading note: Two separate bonds carried the same amount. Abner Benton Bruce also appeared as Abner B Bruce.
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 283
- 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).
