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Orange County Indexed

Jury

August 1801 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court recorded Edmund Gwin [or Green?], George Albright, Jacob Wilhoit and 27 others for jury service.

Kind of business
Jury
Court
August 1801 term
Jurors
Edmund Gwin [or Green?]; George Albright; Jacob Wilhoit; Fredrick Shoftner; Michael Shoftner Jr; Samuel Dick; Henry Albright; Nathaniel Carter Jr; Thomas Cole Sr; Absalom Holt; Joseph Allison; Sam’l Thompson; John Wilkinson; James Lapsley; Robert Tinnen; Eli Lindsy; Jno Thompson; Wm Clark; James Clark; Thomas Baker; Johnston Craig; James Mitchel; James Allison; Stephen Forrest; Baswell Chizenhall; Joseph Woods; Henry Thomson Jr; Jno Galbreath; Hugh Cain; James Miller

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 368
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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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