Road order

The court divided the listed taxables between Orange New Road and Trading Path and required delivery of the allocation to the clerk.

Kind of business

Road order

Court

July 1754 term

Road hands

James McGowen; William Creeg (Craig); David Steel; Anthony Stanford; John Hopkins; John Boyd; Benjamin Gatham; William Hopkins; Gilbert Strean; John McCombs; James McGowen; Hugh Bradley; John McGee; Thomas Strehan; David Black; Israel Catcham; George Irwin; James Hopkins; William Gatham; William Miers

Places

Orange New Road; Trading Path

Amounts

14 in all; 14 in all

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 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).