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May 1816 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The record listed the justices present.

Kind of business
Court in session
Court
May 1816 term
Justices
Thomas Clancy; James S Smith; Robert Tinnen; Sampson Moore; John Blackwood; Robert Murray; Willie Shaw; Henry Thompson; Thomas D Bennehan; Thomas Compton; Isaac Holt; Catlet Campbell; David Mebane; Thomas Rountree; William Shepperd; Abram Craig; James Hutcheson; Robert Graham; Thomas Brewer; James Moore; Robert Harris; William Holt; Henry Brannock; David Allison; John Rhodes; Matthew Durham; Chesley P Patterson; John Umstead; Joseph Moore; Samuel Child; James Mebane; John Craig; Thomas Whithed; Thomas Scott; Zachariah Herndon; Herbert Sims; William Dickey; Joseph Clendening

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 193
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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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