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County business: Nathaniel Christmas, James Trousdale

May 1802 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court commissioned Nathaniel Christmas’s deposition to prove James Trousdale’s deed to the University.

Kind of business
County business
Court
May 1802 term
People
Places
Tom bigby; Georgia
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/223: August 1801 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/380: February 1803 term →
The deed
Deed Book 11, page 142 →
Joseph Clendenin to Jonathan Lindley (our deed record)

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 304
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1802 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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