Orange County Indexed
Road order: James Dickey, Andrew Bargdel (?)(Bridget?), James Allison
March 1753 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
A road was ordered from the county boundary through the courthouse and Pine Foard to James McGowen’s old path, with five named overseers (James Dickey, Andrew Bargdel (?)(Bridget?), James Allison, John West).
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- March 1753 term
- People
- James Dickey (road overseer)
- Andrew Bargdel (?)(Bridget?) (road overseer)
- James Allison (road overseer)
- John West (road overseer; Sr)
- John Pittman (road overseer)
- Road hands
- Marmaduke Kimbrough(s); James McGowen
- Places
- Trading path; Orange Court house; Pine Foard; haw River; Oald path of James McGowen
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).
