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The attorneys who practiced in the first courts of Randolph county were: Nathaniel Williams, Andrew Jackson, William Cocke, Reuben Wood, Jesse Benton, John Williams, William Baily, William Nash, John Louis Taylor, William Crawford.

The county officers were elected by the county court and commissioned by the Governor, and were chosen to serve only one year, up to 1832, when the law was enacted providing for the election of county officers by the popular vote of the people, and the Sheriffs were after this time elected for the term of two years.

In 1795 Alexander Mebane received 156 votes for Congress, and was elected by a large majority over two other candidates in Randolph County.

Mind stamps its impress on the arts and industries of every age, on houses, roads, fields and implements of husbandry.

The log house, the broad-axe, the reap hook, the flax break, the hickory flail, the wooden key, the tallow candle, the flint and steel and touch wood reflect the vanished light of the dawn of mind.

So far have we diverged from the border land of olden times; and surrounded as we are by the triumphs of mind and the achivements of modern science, where the