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Road order: John Jones

4 August 1755 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Jones’s request for a courthouse road through Mary Williams’s on Haw River to Cape Fare road was deferred until the next county court.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
Road commissioners, August 1755, 4 August 1755
People
Road hands
Mary Williams
Places
Court House; Haw River; Cape Fare road

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).
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