County business: James Hendricks, John Patterson

James Hendricks and John Patterson were excused after providing acceptable explanations concerning the previous general meeting.

Kind of business

County business

Court

Road commissioners, April 1754

People

• James Hendricks (commissioner)
• John Patterson (commissioner; Esq.)

Other dates

1st Monday in August last

Reading note: The wording connecting their excuse to the last meeting is compressed; no more precise date is supplied. 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 37-73
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 22
• 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).