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February 1817 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The record listed the attending justices.

Kind of business
Court in session
Court
February 1817 term
Justices
James Mebane; William Lockhart; Sampson Moore; William Holt; William Barbee; John Rhodes; David Allison; John Blackwood; Robert Murray; John Cabe; David Patterson; John Trollinger; James Clark; Willie Shaw; William Shepperd; Thomas Brewer; Catlet Campbell; Robert Graham; Thomas Whithed; Joseph Moore; Thomas Clancy; Herbert Simms; Dennis Hargiss; Thomas Scott; William Moore; Chesley P Patterson; Isaac Holt; James Moore; Thomas Rountree; Samuel Child; Abram Craig; Robert Harris; James Hutcheson; Absalom Alston; Michael Holt; William Dickey; Sterling Harris; Abner B Bruce; Thomas Ditch; David Mebane; Robert Tinnen; James S Smith; John Taylor Junr; Matthew Durham; Henry Thompson; Zachariah Herndon

Reading note: Punctuation was missing between Chesley P Patterson and Zachariah Herndon.

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 297
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1817 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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