The first court was ordered to be held at the home of Robert Lindsay and provided for commissioners to buy the land of John Campbell for the courthouse site. in 1785, Martinsville was laid out as the county seat. It was named in honor of Alexander Martin, governor of North Carolina, 1782-1785 and 1789-1792. The county seat had been called Guilford Court House until the passage of this act. Commissioners were named by the act of 1807 to select a place at the center of the county for the erection of a new courthouse, as the old one wa badly in need of repair and not conveniently located. Commissioners were also named to purchase thirty acres of land and have the new courthouse erected. They were to sell the old courthouse. In 1808, the new county seat was named Greensborough in honor of General Nathaniel Greene of the Continental Army. It was later shortened to Greensboro WONDER WHICH JOHN Campbell THIS WAS<?> Could it have been the Son of George & CATTY,???