County business: James Paine, James Taylor, Josias Dixon

James Paine and the other named boundary workers received attendance allowances at the listed rates.

Kind of business

County business

Court

September 1753 term

People

• James Paine (commissioner)
• James Taylor (commissioner)
• Josias Dixon (commissioner; Esq)
• William Churton (official; Surveyor)
• John Rhodes (Laborer)
• Joseph Barnett (Laborer)
• Mathew McMillen

Amounts

22 days; 21 days; 20; 10 sh.; 3 sh each; £ 11.; 10.10.; 3.3.

Reading note: Allowances: Paine 22 days at 10 shillings (£11); Taylor, Dixon and Churton 21 days (£10.10 each); Rhodes and Barnett 21 days at 3 shillings (£3.3 each); McMillen 20 days (£3, with blank shilling and pence positions).

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 9-18'
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 7
• 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).