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February 1816 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The record listed the justices present.

Kind of business
Court in session
Court
February 1816 term
Justices
Willie Shaw; James Moore; Thomas D Bennehan; Isaac Holt; John Cabe; Samuel Child; Sampson Moore; Abram Craig; Thomas Brewer; Joseph Clendening; John Rhodes; Thomas Rountree; James S Smith; Robert Murray; William Moore; Michael Holt; David Patterson; James Mebane; Thomas Whithed; Absalom Alston; David Allison; Chesley P Patterson; Robert Graham; Catlet Campbell; Thomas Compton; Henry Thompson; Robert Tinnen; John Blackwood

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 9, page 145
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1816 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 30005, “County Court Minutes, 1815–1826” (State Archives film).
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