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April 1757 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

All absent road commissioners were ordered fined.

Kind of business
County business
Court
Road commissioners, April 1757

Reading note: Continues the April meeting on the previous page despite the March running heading; no amounts or names are stated. 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 54-108'
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 34
  • 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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