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Orange County Indexed

Road commissioners’ meeting: Thomas Loyd, James McAllister, William Barnett

2 August 1756 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Fifteen road commissioners attended the general meeting at the courthouse (Thomas Loyd, James McAllister, William Barnett, Joseph Boggs).

Kind of business
Road commissioners’ meeting
Court
Road commissioners, August 1756, 2 August 1756
People
Places
Court house
Amounts
fifteen Commissioners

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 49-98
  • 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).
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