Court in session

The court convened with justices Thomas Clancy, Aaron Walker, Willie Shaw and 49 others present.

Kind of business

Court in session

Court

May 1818 term, 29 May 1818

Justices

Thomas Clancy; Aaron Walker; Willie Shaw; John J Carrington; John Pendergrass; John Bruce; Thomas Scott; William Holt; Thomas Whithed; James Clark; William Dickey; Isaac Holt; Robert Murray; John Thompson; John Taylor Senr; James Mebane; Zachariah Herndon; John Rhodes; James Leathers; Thomas Rountree; James Moore; Thomas Brewer; Abner B Brice; Richard A?????; Henry Brannock; Joseph Clendening; David Patterson; Absalom Alston; John Trollinger; Sarah Moore; William Moore; Thomas H Taylor; Thomas Fitch; William Lockhart; David Allison; Francis Child; James S Smith; James Hutcheson; Henry Thompson; Rankin McKee; John Blackwood; Robert Harris; Fredrick Mize; Sampson Moore; Robert Tinnen; Sterling Harris; William Barbee; Abram Craig; Robert Graham; Catlet Campbell; Chesley P Patterson; Herbert Simms

Reading note: The justice list contained Sarah Moore and an unreadable surname; no correction was inferred. One or more personal readings are uncertain in the transcription.

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 521
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1818 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).