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| North Carolina Sources of Civil Service | ||||
| Copyright © 2015-2023 Debbie Duay, Fort Lauderdale, FL. All Rights Reserved. | ||||
| Many North Carolina residents served in some type of civil capacity such as jurors or county officials during the American Revolution. | ||||
| The court minutes for the NC counties listed below provide lists of jurors and officials. | ||||
| If your ancestor served in a civil capacity between 19 Apr 1775 - 26 Nov 1783, he is eligible for civil service. | ||||
| Email Debbie Duay at | debduay@yahoo.com | for a lookup. | ||
| If you find an ancestor and need to establish residence, consider using the North Carolina tax lists for residence during the Revolutionary War located | at this link. | |||
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| Microfilms of | ||||
| County | Original Records | Books (Published Abstracts/Transcriptions) | DAR Patriots with this Service | |
| All Counties | Browse Master Index of Colonial & State Records by Name | Many NC patriots with civil service in the 26 volumes | ||
| All Counties | Title Page | State Records of North Carolina, Vol 23, pages 992 - 996 by Walter Clark | Abraham Barnett, William Bean, John Bell, Jacob Wade | |
| Philemon Deatherage, Isaac Guilford, William Walton | ||||
| Anson | Title Page | Anson County, NC Abstracts of Early Records by May Wilson McBee | John Cole, John Crawford, Joseph Howell | |
| Anson | 1689093 | Anson County, NC Minute Dockets 1775-1777 (another film of same records is # 18165) | Morgan Brown | |
| Bertie | Bertie County, NC Index to Court Minutes, Vols IV & V | Thomas Baker, Stephen Buck, Michael Capehart | ||
| Brunswick | Brunswick Co, NC Minutes Crt Pleas & Qrtr Sssns, V 1, DL Thompson - Email for Lookup | Benjamin Milliken, Levi Swain, Arthur Robbins | ||
| Brunswick | 988924 | Brunswick County, NC Court Minutes 1782-1783 | ||
| Bute | Bute Co. Minutes Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 1767-1779, by Brent H. Holcomb | Rush Bledsoe, John Brown, John Colclough | ||
| Carteret | Early Carteret County, NC Court Minutes, Vols 3-4 by R. Sanders - Email for Lookup | Malachi Bell, Asa Bishop, Gayer Chadwick | ||
| Caswell | 358278 | Caswell County, NC Court Minutes 1777-1783 | David Herndon, Thomas Robertson, William Swift | |
| Caswell | Caswell County, Historical Abstracts of Minutes by KK Kendall - Email for Lookup | James Curry Sr, George Foote, Paul Harrelson | ||
| Chatham | Chatham County, NC Court Minutes, Vols 1-2 by M. Laird & V. Jackson | Thomas Bell, Henry Bray, John Burt | ||
| Chatham | 590299 | Chatham County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 | Samuel Stewart | |
| Chowan | Chowan County, NC Court Minutes Index 1775-1783 | David Lawrence, David Welch | ||
| Chowan | 1730356 | Chowan County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 | ||
| Chowan | 18508 | another film of same records | ||
| Chowan | 626291 Item 3 | Chowan County, NC List of Jurors 1778 (image 703) | ||
| Craven | 1689307 | Craven County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 | ||
| Craven | Craven County, NC Court Minutes, Vols 7-8 by Weynette Parks Haun - Email for Lookup | John Beasley, Michael Becton, Jarvis Buxton | ||
| Cumberland | 316819 | Cumberland County, NC Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1775-1783 | ||
| Cumberland | Cumberland Co, NC Minutes Court Pleas & Qrtr Sssns, V 1-2, W. Fields - Email for Lookup | Henry Cagle, David Clark, Peter Culbraith | ||
| Edgecombe | 370142 | Edgecombe County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 | ||
| Edgecombe | Edgecombe County, NC Court Minutes, Vol 3 by Weynette Parks Haun - Email for Lookup | Hopewell Adams, Benjamin Braswell, Emory Davis | ||
| Franklin (see Bute) | ||||
| Gates | Gates County, NC Court Minutes, Vol 1, by Marilyn Laird & Virginia Jackson | Samuel Baker, Jethro Ballard, James Bristow | ||
| Gates | 422103 | Gates County, NC Court Minutes 1779-1783 | ||
| Granville | 1183334 | Granville County Lists of Jurors 1778, 1779, 1781, 1782, & 1783 (images 139-157) | ||
| (Check all images from 139 to 157 as the years are not in order) | ||||
| Greene (now TN) | 944390 | Greene County, TN Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas by Goldene Burgner | Amos Bird, Henry Earnest | |
| Guilford | Old Guilford County, NC Court Minutes 1781-1788 by Nancy Hawlick Stein | William Birney, Alexander Caldwell, George Cummings | ||
| Guilford | 501190 | Guilford County, NC Court Minutes 1781-1783 | Archibald McMichael | |
| Guilford | Guilford County, NC Court Minutes Aug 1781-May 1788 by Jane Smith Hill | Nathaniel Brown, Thomas Landreth | ||
| Hyde | 1758969 | Hyde County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 | ||
| Hyde | Hyde County, NC Court Minutes, Vol 4 by Weynette Parks Haun - Email for Lookup | Stephen Brooks, Cason Gibbs, Thomas Jordan | ||
| Johnston | Johnston County, NC Court Minutes, V 2-3, 1775-1783, Weynette Haun - Email for Lookup | Plyer Barber, Needham Bryan Sr, Henry Bulls Jr | ||
| Lincoln (see also Tryon) | Lincoln Co, NC Minutes Court Pleas Qrtr Sssns, V 1, McAllister/Sullivan - Email for Lookup | John Baird, Ambrose Cobb, John Cox | ||
| Lincoln (see also Tryon) | 833297 | Lincoln County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 | ||
| Lincoln (see also Tryon) | 421868 | Lincoln County, NC Court Minutes 1779-1782 | ||
| Mecklenburg | NC DAR GRC report s1 v333, Mecklenburg Co Court Minutes 1774-1800 by Doris Briscoe | Hugh Barnett, Andrew Baxter Sr, Roger Cunningham | ||
| Mecklenburg | 812947 | Mecklenburg County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 (another film of same records # 19310) | John McDowell | |
| Nash | Nash County, NC Court Minutes, Vol 1 by Stephen E. Bradley, Jr - Email for Lookup | Arthur Arrington Sr, William Barnes, Marcum Cooper | ||
| Nash | 419206 | Nash County, NC Court Minutes, 1778-1785 | Peter Hatton | |
| New Hanover | New Hanover County, NC Court Minutes, Vol 2 by Alexander McDonald Walker | Peter Batson, James Bloodworth, William Green | ||
| New Hanover | 276157 | New Hanover County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 | ||
| Onslow | Onslow County, NC Court Minutes Index 1779-1782 | Bishop Dudley, Benjamin Shepard, Lewis Williams | ||
| Onslow | Onslow County, NC Court Minutes 1775, Pages 69-74 | |||
| Orange | Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court, Orange Co, NC by Alma Cheek Redden | James Bird, Richard Bird, Benjamin Blake | ||
| Orange | 306044 | Orange County, NC Court Minutes 1777-1783 | ||
| Orange | 1486563 | Superior Court Minutes Hillsborough District 1778-1783 | ||
| Orange | Orange County, NC Court Minutes, Vol 3 by Weynette Parks Haun - Email for Lookup | William Andrews, John Armstrong, Robert Baldridge | ||
| Perquimans | 1418546 Item 3 | Perquimans County, NC Jury Lists 1777-1783 (images 704 - 722) | ||
| Perquimans | 103787285 | Perquimans County, NC Court Minutes 1782-1783 | ||
| Randolph | 19650 | Randolph County, NC Court Minutes Index 1779-1782 | Mannering Brookshire, William Diffee, John McDaniel | |
| Randolph | 5819923 | Another film of same records 1779-1782 (perhaps better quality) | ||
| Richmond | 475672 | Richmond County, NC Court Minutes 1779-1783 | ||
| Richmond | 475671 | Typewritten transcription of original records 1779-1783 | ||
| Richmond | Richmond County, NC Court Minutes of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Book 1 by Lee G. Barrow | James Bounds, John Cole, William Hunter | ||
| Rowan | 19751 | Rowan County, NC Court Minutes 1775-1783 (another film of same records # 313776) | James Scrivener | |
| Rowan | Rowan Co, NC Minutes Court Pleas Qrtr Sssns, V 3, Jo White Linn - Email for Lookup | Michael Albright, Henry Barclay, Andrew Beard | ||
| Rutherford | 428854 | Rutherford County, NC Court Minutes 1779-1783 | Henry Callahan, John McClure | |
| Rutherford | Rutherford Co, NC Minutes Court Pleas Qrtr Sssns, by Hedy Newton - Email for Lookup | Wallace Beatty, Benjamin Biggerstaff, David Dickey | ||
| Surry | 345885 | Surry County, NC Court Minutes 1779-1783 | Richard Cox | |
| Surry | Surry County, NC Court Minutes, Vols 1-2 by Mrs. W O Absher - Email for Lookup | James Badgett, Moses Baker, Terry Bradley | ||
| Tryon | 833297 | Tryon County, NC Court Minutes | ||
| Tryon | Tryon County, NC Minutes Court Pleas Qrtr Sssns, by Brent Holcomb - Email for Lookup | John Anderson, Thomas Beatty, John Bradley | ||
| Wake | Wake County, NC Index to Court Minutes 1777-1784 | Reynolds Allen, Joseph Barbee, Charles Brumfield | ||
| Wake | 5819936 | Wake County, NC Court Minutes, Book A-1, 1775-1776 - Email for Lookup | ||
| Warren (see also Bute) | 1730483 | Warren County, NC Court Minutes 1777-1783 (also on microfilm # 454196) | John Mayberry | |
| Warren (see also Bute) | Warren Co, NC Mintes Court Pleas Qrtr Sssns, V 1, G. Chrstms-Beattie - Email for Lookup | William Green, Nimrod Williams, Reuben Withers | ||
| Washington (now TN) | American Historical Magazine Vol 5, pages 343-381 | Vol 6, pages 51-93 | ||
| Washington (now TN) | 825510 | Washington County, TN Court Minutes 1778-1783 | Francis Hamilton | |
| Wilkes | Wilkes County, NC Abstracts of Court Minutes, Vol 1, 1778-1784 by Mrs W. O. Absher | Adoniram Allen, William Allison, Bernard Franklin | ||
| Wilkes | 20130 | Wilkes County, NC Court Minutes, 1778-1784 | ||
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