Jury

The court recorded Nath’l Carter, Nath’l McLemore, Wm Whithead Sr and 11 others for jury service.

Kind of business

Jury

Court

February 1798 term, 27 February 1798

Jurors

Nath’l Carter; Nath’l McLemore; Wm Whithead Sr; Rob’t Milliken; James Mebane Sr; James Mitchel; James Newlin; Jno Holms; Absalum Tatom; Jno Piper Sr; Samuel Scott; Jno Walker; James Thompson; Hugh Cain

Reading note: James Thompson’s parent was unreadable; the list lacked punctuation before Hugh Cain.

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 354
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1798 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).