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Early Granville County Officials |
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As found in early records |
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Clerks of the County Court |
Constables |
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Served through these years |
Years appointed & locations covered |
| Daniel Weldon 1748 - 1765 | William Perry -1746 - Crooked Creek & Cedar Creek |
| Samuel Benton 1766 -1769 | William Myers -1747 - Six pound, Nutbush, Andersons Swamp |
| Isaac Edwards 1770 - 1771 | James Langford - 1747 - County Line Creek & up River |
| Jesse Benton (Deputy Clerk) 1770 | Thomas Dennard - 1747 -Gr Fishing Creek, Shoccoe, County line |
| Reuben Searcy 1771 - 1783 | John Shearing -1747 - Six pound Creek to County Rd & Line |
| Asa Searcy 1783 - 1784 | Henry Collins -1747 - Shocco Rd to Sandy Creek to Tabbs |
| Reuben Searcy 1784 - 1785 | John Gibbs - 1747 -Great Fishing Creek to Sandy Creek |
| Bennett Searcy (Deputy Clerk) 1785 | James Ross - 1747 - Sandy Creek to Tarr River to Tabbs Creek |
| William Stacy -1747 -s/s Tar River, Southern boundary, Simms path | |
| George Morris - 1747- Tabbs Creek to head of Tarr River | |
| James Lee - 1747 - Tarr River to County line Creek | |
| William Richardson -1747- Grassy Creek, Blue Wing Crk, County line | |
| Joseph Glover - 1747 - Nut Bush to Island Creek | |
| William Massey- Sept. 1747- in place of James Ross | |
| Henry Thornton - Sept. 1747 -in place of John Gibbs | |
| Henry Laughter - March 1747/8 - in place of Thomas Dennard | |
| Samuel Rose - 1748 | |
| Henry King - 1748 - in place of William Myers | |
| James Heath - 1748 - Little River, Flat River, n/s of Enoe | |
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County Court Justices |
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| William Eaton | 1746 -1758 |
John Martin |
1746 -1758 |
| James Paine | 1746 - 1763 |
| Edward Jones | 1746 - 1750 |
| John Wade | 1746 - 1753 |
| Gideon Macon | 1746 - 1759, 1763 |
| West Harris | 1746 - 1756 |
| Jonathan White | 1746 - 1756 |
| Samuel Henderson | 1747 - 1758 |
| John Brantley | 1747 - 1756 |
| Lawrence Bankston | 1747 - 1752 |
| Lemuel Lanier | 1747 - 1751 |
| William Person | 1749 - 1759, 1762 - 1763 |
| Henry Webb | 1749 |
| William Chambers | 1749 - 1756 |
| Thomas Lovelatty | 1750 - 1752 |
| Osborne Jeffreys | 1751 - 1756, 1761-1763 |
| William Bolling | 1752 |
| Robert Harris | 1752 - 1755, 1761 - 1784 |
| Samuel Benton | 1752 - 1756, 1763 |
| Phillip Pryor | 1752 - 1756, 1761 - 1767 |
| William Hurst | 1754 - 1759 |
| John Sallis | 1754 - 1756 |
| Edward Moore | 1754 - 1756 |
| Daniel Underwood | 1754 - 1756 |
| Lodoioie Alford | 1754 - 1756 |
| Richard Harris Jr. | 1754 - 1758 |
| Phillip Alston | 1754 - 1756 |
| Daniel Harris | 1754 - 1759, 1763 |
| James Yancy | 1754 - 1758, 1763 -1765, 1768 - 1772 |
| Nathaniel Harris | 1754 - 1758 |
| William Johnson | 1756 - 1759, 1761 -1763 |
| Thomas Person | 1756 - 1759, 1763 -1764, 1774 - 1779, 1782 - 1784 |
| Philemon Hawkins | 1756 - 1758, 1763 |
| Henry Howard | 1756, 1763 |
| George Lamkin | 1756 - 1758 |
| William Burford | 1756, 1766 - 1777 |
| Robert Hicks | 1758 -1759 |
| John Pope | 1758 -1785 |
| James Mitchell | 1759 - 1763 |
| John Hawkins | 1759 |
| Charles Johnson | 1759 - 1760 |
| Larken Johnston | 1760 - 1763 |
| Howell Lewis | 1763 |
| John Williams Jr. | 1763 |
| Philip Taylor | 1762 - 1764 |
| Richard Henderson | 1762 - 1763 |
| Solomon Alston | 1761 - 1763 |
| Reuben Searcy | 1765 - 1771 |
| David Mitchell | 1767 - 1779 |
| Len Henley Bullock | 1767 - 1772 |
| Jonathan Kittrell | 1768 - 1777 |
| Stephen Jett | 1768 - 1772 |
| Thornton Yancey | 1768 - 1786 |
| William Bullock | 1768 - 1772 |
| Sherwood Harris | 1769 - 1773, 1778 - 1784 |
| Robert Lewis | 1769 - 1778 |
| Charles Rust Eaton | 1769 - 1785 |
| Haden Pryor | 1769 - 1772 |
| Robert Dickens | 1770 - 1772 |
| Solomon Alston Jr. | 1770 - 1771 |
| Thomas Banks | 1774 - 1780 |
| John Young | 1774 - 1785 |
| Samuel Smith | 1774 - 1786 |
| Memucan Hunt | 1774 - 1786 |
| William Taylor | 1774 - 1778 |
| John Taylor | 1774 - 1786 |
| John Oliver | 1777 |
| Daniel Grant | 1777 - 1783 |
| John Lewis | 1777 |
| Micajah Bullock | 1777 - 1786 |
| Bartlett Searcy | 1777 - 1784 |
| William Kennon | 1777 - 1784 |
| Robert Burton | 1778, 1783 - 1785 |
| John Henderson | 1778 - 1782 |
| Philemon Hawkins Jr. | 1778 - 1779, 1785 |
| Ransom Sutherland | 1778 |
| John Dickerson | 1778 - 1780, 1784 |
| Lewis Yancey | 1778 - 1785 |
| James Langston | 1778 - 1782 |
| Thomas Satterwhite | 1780 - 1785 |
| Zacharias Higgs | 1780 - 1786 |
| William Hunt | 1785 |
| Samuel Fuller | 1781 |
| Howel Lewis Jr. | 1785 - 1786 |
| John Manier | 1786 |
| Thomas Owen | 1786 |
| Edward Taylor Jr. | 1786 |
| Ambrose Baker | 1786 |
| Robert Reid | 1786 |
| William Gill | 1786 |
| Benjamin Thomas | 1786 |
Granville County Public Registers |
Granville County Sheriffs |
(year of first appearance in office) |
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| William Eaton - 1748 - 1759 | William Person - 1746 |
| William Hurst - 1759 | James Paine - 1748 |
| Jesse Benton - 1770 - 1775 | John Martin - 1750 |
| John Hunt - 1775 - 1777 | William Eaton - 1752 |
| Michael Satterwhite - 1777 - 1785+ | Samuel Henderson - 1754 |
| William Johnson - 1756 | |
| Philemon Hawkins - 1758 | |
| Reuben Searcy - 1763 | |
| Philip Pryor - 1764 | |
| James Yancey - 1766 | |
| Lenard Henley Bullock - 1768 | |
| Robert Harris - 1770 | |
| William Bullock - 1772 | |
| John Pope - 1774 | |
| Benjamin Wade - 1777 | |
| David Mitchell - 1779 | |
| Elijah Mitchell - 1780 | |
| Thornton Yancey - 1781 | |
| Charles Rust Eaton - 1783 | |
| William Hunt - 1785 | |
Under Sheriffs |
Deputy Sheriffs |
(dates appointed) |
(dates appointed) |
| William Duke -1748 | Philemon Hawkins Jr. - 1768 |
| Barnaby Pope - 1751 | Samuel Henderson Jr. - 1770 |
| John Martin - 1752 | Memucan Hunt - 1770, 1774 |
| Aaron Fussel - 1752 | David Royster - 1772 |
| William Person Jr. - 1754 | John Gwinn - 1772, 1775, 1778 |
| Richard Henderson - 1754 | James Kelly - 1772 |
| Nathaniel Henderson - 1755 | William Hunt - 1772, 1774, 1783, 1784 |
| Thomas Satterwhite - 1772 | |
| John Hunt - 1774 | |
| Micajah Bullock - 1777 | |
| David Wade - 1780 | |
| Samuel Smith - 1781 | |
| Sterling Yancey - 1781 | |
| Thornton Yancey - 1783 | |
| Anderson Hunt - 1784 | |
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List of Justices for Granville County |
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A List of Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace for Granville County July 6th 1756 |
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William Eaton William Parsons James Paine John Martin Gideon Macon William Chambose—lives in Orange Samuel Henderson West Harris Jonathan White have long refused to Qualify John Brantly—lives in SoCarolina Osburn Jeffereys—refused to act Samuel Benton—in Prison & refuses Philip Pryor—refuses Richd Harris junior Philip Alston—always refused to act John Sallis—turned out by order of Council William Hurst—refused to act Daniel Harris James Yancy Nathl Harris—Common Drunkard Edward Moore—refused to act Ledwick Alford—refused to act Daniel Underwood—refused to act |
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The following persons are recomended by Robert Jones junior as fitly Qualified to act as magistrates |
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Wm Johnson Henry Howard Thomas Parsons George Lampkin Philn Hawkins Wm Burford |
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Documenting the American South, CSR; enclosed in letter from Robert Jones |
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| From the Livingston Law Register-1851
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| Abrahams Plains: James Amis
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| Brownsville: Abraham W. Venable
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| Oxford: Leonidas C. Edwards Robert B. Gilliam Gilliam & Lanier Archibald E. Henderson (retired) Edward H. Hicks Marcellus V. Lanier Robert W. Lasiter James T. Littlejohn John C. Taylor (retired) Thomas V. Venable William R. Wiggins George Wortham |
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