Orange County Indexed
Road order: Thompson Harris, Thomas Bartin ?, Benjamin King
7 April 1755 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Thompson Harris and Thomas Bartin ? became overseers for a shorter road from lower Sorry (Saury) Town to Orange Court House.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- Road commissioners, April 1755, 7 April 1755
- People
- Thompson Harris (road overseer)
- Thomas Bartin ? (road overseer)
- Benjamin King (commissioner)
- Henry Reynolds (commissioner)
- Places
- lower Sorry (Saury) Town; Orange Court House
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).