Orange County Indexed
Road order: James Stewart, James Hendricks
5 August 1754 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
James Stewart became overseer under James Hendricks for a sixteen-foot road past Pryor’s and Dixon’s former home to Van Hook’s, using nearby Hico residents.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- Road commissioners, August 1754, 5 August 1754
- People
- James Stewart (road overseer)
- James Hendricks (commissioner)
- Pryor (Justice)
- Dixon (Justice)
- Van Hook (Mr.)
- Road hands
- Edward William
- Places
- Hico
- Amounts
- 16 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 37-74
- 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).
