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Orange County Indexed

Tax

28 May 1801 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court levied the current year’s county tax on polls, town property and land.

Kind of business
Tax
Court
May 1801 term, 28 May 1801
Amounts
2/; hundred pounds; 8d; hundred acre

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 6, page 196
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1801 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).
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