Orange County Indexed
Road order: Thomas Holden, Hugh Porter, James Allison
2 August 1756 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The record listed the county’s thirty-five current road commissioners (Thomas Holden, Hugh Porter, James Allison, Robert Cate).
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- Road commissioners, August 1756, 2 August 1756
- People
- Thomas Holden (commissioner)
- Hugh Porter (commissioner)
- James Allison (commissioner; Esq)
- Robert Cate (commissioner)
- Thomas Loyd (commissioner)
- William Rhodes (commissioner)
- Lawrence Banckson (commissioner)
- James McAllister (commissioner)
- William Barnett (commissioner)
- Joseph Boggs (commissioner; Esq)
- John McGee (commissioner)
- Peter Hilton (commissioner; Sr)
- John Gray (commissioner)
- Alex. Mebane (commissioner; Esq.)
- Robert Erwin (commissioner)
- William Copeland (commissioner)
- James Collins (commissioner)
- Zach. Martin (commissioner; Sr)
- William Armstrong (commissioner)
- Henry Reynolds (commissioner)
- Benjamin King (commissioner)
- John Jones (commissioner)
- George Hopson (commissioner)
- John Wright (commissioner)
- Thomas Brooks (commissioner)
- Gilbert Patterson (commissioner)
- Thomas Sullivant (commissioner)
- John White (commissioner)
- Reuben Freshwater (commissioner)
- Samuel McDuff (commissioner)
- Lawrence Thompson (commissioner)
- John Crawford (commissioner)
- Robert Lanier (commissioner)
- Samuel Jones (commissioner)
- Isaac Jones (commissioner)
Reading note: The August 2, 1756 list appears under a December heading; its explicit date is retained. Dots mark thirteen names in the printed list. 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 49-97'
- Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 29
- 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).
