Road order: Thomas Branson, Jonathan Williams, Thomas Lindley

Thomas Branson, Jonathan Williams, Thomas Lindley, Wm. Miers, Daniel Norris and John Tomlinson became overseers for Cape Fare road south of Haw River.

Kind of business

Road order

Court

Road commissioners, August 1755, 4 August 1755

People

• Thomas Branson (road overseer)
• Jonathan Williams (road overseer)
• Thomas Lindley (road overseer)
• Wm. Miers (road overseer)
• Daniel Norris (road overseer)
• John Tomlinson (road overseer)

Places

Cape Fare; Haw River

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 24
• 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).