Orange County Indexed
Road commissioners, August 1755
9 items of business at the road commissioners’ meeting, in the order recorded. No county court is recorded this month.
4 August 1755
- Road commissioners’ meetingThe road commissioners met on the stated fourth day.
- Road orderDavid Bradford replaced Thomas Wilkinson as overseer after Wilkinson left the jurisdiction.
- Road orderJohn White replaced John Dunnagan as road overseer.
- Road orderJames Clark replaced John Dunnagan as road overseer.
- Road orderThomas Branson, Jonathan Williams, Thomas Lindley, Wm. Miers, Daniel Norris and John Tomlinson became overseers for Cape Fare road south of Haw River.
- Road orderJohn 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.
- Road orderJoseph Mattock received approval for a road from the courthouse through his Enoe River mill to Trading Path.
- Road orderWm. Barnett’s proposed courthouse road from the Virginia boundary was approved, with James Stewart and Lawrence Banckson appointed overseers.
- Road orderJames Dickey and Robert Wiley were assigned to work on Trading path Road under Mebane.
