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Road order: John Dunnagan, Isaac Jackson, James Morrow

December 1753 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Dunnagan, Isaac Jackson, James Morrow and Hugh Smith were assigned successive road sections from the Granville boundary to the south-side Haw River Hill.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
December 1753 term
People
Road hands
Michael Synnot
Places
Granville County line; Enoe River; Haw River Hill

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 36-71'
  • 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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