[Excerpt from "The Constable in Colonial North Carolina", by Alan D. Watson]
[North Carolina Office of Archives & History, The Colonial Records Project ]
[posted 8 Jul 2005]

[Vol. 68 (1991), 1-16]

Between 1758 and 1775, Edgecombe justices kept half of their eighty-eight 
constables in office for two or more terms. Many served three to seven years; 
John Shepherd and John Murphy served ten and eleven years respectively.