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Road order: Marmaduke Kimbrough

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

Marmaduke Kimbrough was assigned to inspect the road from Pine ford to Great Alamance.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
Road commissioners, August 1753, 6 August 1753
People
Places
Pine ford; Great Alamance

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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