Orange County, N.C Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Sept. 1752- Aug. 1766

Orange County was created in 1752 from Granville, Johnston and Bladen Counties with Granville having been formed from Edgecombe County. Rowan County was formed as the western boundry of Range in 1753. Counties formed from Orange were Guilford and Randolph in 1770 with Rockingham taken from Guilford in 1785, Chatham in 1770 with a small portion of it taken to become part of Wake County in 1770, and in 1771 Caswell County was taken from Orange with Person County taken from Caswell in 1792. The court was held 4 times a year and heard such cases of assault, batteries, trespass, all breaches of the peace. They held authority of administration in interstate estates and orphans, granted license to build water grist mills, to taverns and ordinaries, and to build and maintain public ferries.Shields, Ruth H. is the author of 'Orange County, N.C Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Sept. 1752- Aug. 1766' with ISBN 9780893084561 and ISBN 0893084565.