Road order: Thomas Thompson, James Swafer, Dickey

Thomas Thompson and James Swafer became overseers under Dickey for a road from Great lick toward James Watson’s, requested by Governor’s Settlement residents.

Kind of business

Road order

Court

Road commissioners, April 1754, 22 April 1754

People

• Thomas Thompson (road overseer)
• James Swafer (road overseer)
• Dickey (commissioner; Mr.)
• James Watson (Esq)

Places

Governor's Settlement; Enoe; Great lick; Hus (?) or Hico (?) path

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).