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Road order: Robert Cate

December 1753 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Robert Cate replaced John Patterson as road commissioner.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
December 1753 term
People

Reading note: Term carried from the preceding page; no new date heads this order. 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).
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