Orange County Indexed
Official appointed: Andrew Murdock
1 June 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court elected Andrew Murdock sheriff of Orange County.
- Kind of business
- Official appointed
- Court
- May 1798 term, 1 June 1798
- People
- Andrew Murdock (sheriff)
- Justices
- John Umstead; Sterling Harris; James Carson; Arch’d Campbell; John Thompson; Empson Bird; James Christmas; Benjamin Lacey; Walter Alves; William McCauley; William Lytle; William Strudwick; John Rhodes; Francis Moreland; William Shepperd; Shad’k Forrest; John Taylor; Robert Campbell; Hardy Hurdle
- Places
- Orange County
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 416
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
