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Official appointed: William Reed

6 August 1753 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

William Reed was appointed clerk to the road commissioners with fifty shillings for the year’s services.

Kind of business
Official appointed
Court
Road commissioners, August 1753, 6 August 1753
People
Amounts
50 shillings
Other dates
this present year

Reading note: 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 20
  • 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).
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