Orange County Indexed
Road order: Zachariah Martin, Wm. Copeland, James Collins
December 1753 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Zachariah Martin, Wm. Copeland and James Collins became commissioners to maintain the courthouse–Hawfields–Cape Fare (Fear) road using neighboring residents’ labor.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- December 1753 term
- People
- Zachariah Martin (commissioner; Sr.)
- Wm. Copeland (commissioner)
- James Collins (commissioner)
- Places
- Court House; Hawfields; Cape Fare (Fear)
Reading note: No date heads these three orders; term carried from the December 1753 footnote on the preceding page, but the assignment remains uncertain. 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 36-72
- Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 21
- 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).
