Orange County Indexed
Road order: Wm. Barnett, James Stewart, Lawrence Banckson
4 August 1755 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Wm. Barnett’s proposed courthouse road from the Virginia boundary was approved, with James Stewart and Lawrence Banckson appointed overseers.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- Road commissioners, August 1755, 4 August 1755
- People
- Wm. Barnett (petitioner)
- James Stewart (road overseer)
- Lawrence Banckson (road overseer)
- Aaron Van Hook (commissioner)
- Places
- Virginia line; Holts (?) Mill; Taylor's road; Enoe; 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 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).
