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Road order: Wm. Gross, Edward Stone, Francis Day

22 April 1754 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Wm. Gross and Edward Stone were assigned sections of a new road from Western Road through the Enoe ford toward Cape Fare.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
Road commissioners, April 1754, 22 April 1754
People
Road hands
John White; Wm. Reed
Places
Western Road; W. path; Old Ford; Enoe River; Cape Fare

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 36-72
  • 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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