Road commissioners’ meeting: Thomas Holden, John Pittman, James Allison

The record listed twenty-four road commissioners for the April meeting (Thomas Holden, John Pittman, James Allison, Lawrence Banckson).

Kind of business

Road commissioners’ meeting

Court

Road commissioners, April 1756, 26 April 1756

People

• Thomas Holden (commissioner)
• John Pittman (commissioner; Esq.)
• James Allison (commissioner)
• Lawrence Banckson (commissioner)
• James McCallister (commissioner)
• William Barnett (commissioner)
• John Gray (commissioner)
• Alexander Mebane (commissioner)
• Robert Erwin (commissioner)
• William Armstrong (commissioner)
• Henry Reynolds (commissioner)
• Benjamin King (commissioner)
• Thomas Lloyd (commissioner)
• Robert Cate (commissioner)
• Thomas Rhodes (commissioner)
• Joseph Boggs (commissioner)
• Jacob Brooks (commissioner)
• Peter Hilton (commissioner)
• William Collins (commissioner)
• James Collins (commissioner)
• Zachariah Martin (commissioner)
• John Jones (commissioner)
• George Hobson (Hopson?) (commissioner)
• John Wright (commissioner)

Reading note: April 26, 1756 is printed within December 1756 material. Hobson has an alternate reading Hopson?. The date and names are retained. 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 48-96'
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 28
• 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).