Road order: Robert Cate, John Gray

Two groups of named workers were assigned to road labor under Robert Cate and John Gray.

Kind of business

Road order

Court

Road commissioners, April 1755, 7 April 1755

People

• Robert Cate (commissioner; Cap't)
• John Gray (commissioner)

Road hands

Joshua Stroud; George Smith; Thomas Cate; Richard Owins; Edward Carter; John Gray; James Railey; Henry Leman; Henry Hastings; John Hunter

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 38-75
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 23
• 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).