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James C. Turrentine

James C. Turrentine was sheriff of Orange County in the 1830s and 1840s and later a Hillsborough merchant. As a warden of the poor he helped run the county poorhouse until the wardens' last meeting in 1868. In August 1864, as presiding justice of the county court, he called the justices together to provide for soldiers' families, and in 1868 Governor Holden named him a justice of the peace.

Source: The Hillsborough Recorder, August 17, 1864

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To the citizens of Orange County : I have been for many years your Sheriff, and trust I have established some character among my fellow citizens for uprightness in the discharge of the duites of my office.

Turrentine, James · 1844

James C. Turrentine, for many years sheriff of Orange County, addressed his fellow citizens in this 1844 broadside, answering John Berry's charge that he had acted improperly in casting the deciding vote for Berry's opponent at a recent election. Thirty by nineteen centimeters, signed at the end.

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Turrentine, Michael H. · 1800

Michael H. Turrentine of Hillsborough, an officer in the 31st North Carolina Regiment, wrote many of these 45 items while posted at Fort Caswell and Gatling's Battery during the Civil War. Earlier papers, from about 1838 to 1840, follow James Turrentine's work as Orange County sheriff, mostly on the land of Phillips and Elizabeth Moore. Other topics include a governor's race, prices paid for enslaved people, and Charleston and Savannah in wartime.

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  1. The wardens of the poor order poorhouse repairs and a $1,000 loan After a called meeting on May 11, 1857 about the state of the poorhouse building, the wardens asked the county court on May 25 to summon the magistrates on the condition of the poor. They named a committee to repair the west building and let the superintendent borrow $1,000. People: John U. Kirkland, Pride Jones, James C. TurrentineSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 187
  2. The county court sets its 1865 levy for poor relief and soldiers' families The February court matched the state tax on land and polls and split the money: $15,000 for poor relief, $10,000 for county purposes and the rest for soldiers' families. The previous August, presiding justice James C. Turrentine had called all the justices together on the families' support. People: James C. TurrentineLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 189
  3. The Court of Wardens of the Poor holds its last meeting The seven-member wardens' court, which had run poor relief and the county poorhouse, met for the last time before the new board of county commissioners took over its work. People: Lemuel Lynch, John Wesley Carr, James C. TurrentineSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 188

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