Craven County NcArchives Court.....Sessions, Court Of Pleas & Quarter March 11, 1777
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: March 11, 1777

Minutes of the Craven County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
North Carolina. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions (Craven County)
March 11, 1777 
Volume 11, Page 710

From Records of Craven Co.

State of North Carolina.
At a Court of Quarter Sessions and the Peace, Begun and Held for the County of 
Craven, at the Court House in New Bern on Tuesday the 11th day of March, in 
the year of our Lord 1777, and in the first year of the Independence of this 
State.
 
An ordinance for appointing Justices of the County of Craven being read, the 
following Gentlemen being named in the Commission of the Peace appeared, who 
having been qualified, agreeable to a Dedimus from His Excellency Richard 
Caswell, Esquire, Governor, &c., of this State, took their seats on the Bench; 
viz: James Davis, Alexander Gaston, Richard Ellis, Jacob Johnson, John 
Fonvielle, William Carraway, John Tillman, Bazil Smith, William Bryan, William 
Tisdale, John Gilliard, Esquires.

The Court proceeded to nominate and appoint a Clerk, when Christopher Neale 
being proposed was unanimously chosen and appointed as such, and took the Oath 
of Allegiance to the State, and the Oath of Office, and entered into Bond with 
sufficient security for the Faithful discharge of his Duty in Office, which 
Bond is to be lodged in the Secretary's Office.

John Bryan, Esquire, was unanimously nominated and appointed Sheriff of the 
County of Craven, and thereupon he produced a Commission from His Excellency 
the Governor, which being read, the said John Bryan, Esquire, took the Oath of 
Allegiance to the State and the Oath of Office, and entered into Bond with 
John Tillman, John Bryan, Trent, & William Carraway Securitys in the sum of 
one thousand Pounds for the Faithful Discharge of his Duty in office.

John McGraw was appointed Cryer of this Court.

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