Orange County Indexed
Road order: Thomas Cate, Robert Cate
5 August 1754 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Thomas Cate became overseer from Camp branch to Western path in Robert Cate’s district, with twelve named road workers.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- Road commissioners, August 1754, 5 August 1754
- People
- Thomas Cate (road overseer; Sr)
- Robert Cate (commissioner)
- Road hands
- James Moss; Henry Hunter; John Hastings; John Gray; Henry Leman; James Railey; James Dickey; Charles Fogerson; James Tinnen; Joseph Cate; Richard Cate; Robert Wiley
- Places
- Camp branch; Western 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 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).
