Nash County, North Carolina Court Minutes, Volume 2, 1787-1793

The text that follows contains volume two of a projected series of the Nash County, North Carolina Court Minutes.  

Court minutes are the key to all other county records.  Court minutes include probates of deeds and wills, petitions for bridges and mills, districts a person lived in, jury lists, "baseborn" children naming their parents and dates of birth, guardian appointments, to name only a few items of information contained in the minutes.  

Nash County was formed in 1778.  We have the first Court Minutes for that period without interruption.  The novice will need to know that the county courts at that time were called the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions.  The name was not changed until 1868 under the court reform of the Reconstruction era.  

Please note the various indexes:   Full Name, Women's Christian Name, Place Name, and Subject Name.  Only one slave was named in these years and you will find him under "Slaves" in the subject index.

Stephen E. Bradley, Jr.

(1993), 2011, 8.5" x 11", paper, 162 pp.

ISBN: 9781680348491

101-B4849