Orange County Indexed
Road order: James Nichols, John Pittman
22 April 1754 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
James Nichols became overseer under John Pittman for a fifteen-foot road from Little Troublesome to Orange new road at Nathaniel Allison’s.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- Road commissioners, April 1754, 22 April 1754
- People
- James Nichols (road overseer)
- John Pittman (commissioner)
- Road hands
- Nathaniel Allison
- Places
- Little Troublesome; Orange new road
- Amounts
- 15 feet wide
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).
