Orange County Indexed
Road order: James Dickey, Jno Pitman, John Allison
March 1753 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The listed commissioners were assigned to five road districts (James Dickey, Jno Pitman, John Allison, Mark Morgan).
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- March 1753 term
- People
- James Dickey (commissioner)
- Jno Pitman (commissioner)
- John Allison (commissioner)
- Mark Morgan (commissioner)
- William Rhodes (commissioner)
- John Patterson (commissioner)
- Timothy Tyrrell (commissioner)
- David Miers (commissioner)
- William Miers (commissioner)
- Marmaduke Kimbrough (commissioner)
- Henry Bedingfield (commissioner)
- Joseph Boggs (commissioner)
- Lawrence Banckston (commissioner)
- Josias Dixon (commissioner)
- James Hendricks (commissioner)
- Places
- Haw River; Nuse & Haw River; Trading path; Western path; western path; Hico
Reading note: From the commissioners’ undated first meeting (Shields prints its year as “175_”), which stands just before their March 1753 meeting. Recorded at a meeting of the county’s road commissioners, which Shields’s abstracts print among the court minutes.
Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.
Where to find it
- Folio and page 35-70
- Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 19
- Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30001, “County Court Minutes, 1752–1766” (State Archives film).
