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Road order

June 1759 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A twelve-member jury was appointed to lay out the courthouse road toward Tower Hill; Edward Stone, John Patterson and Joseph Barbee became section overseers.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
June 1759 term
Road jury
Edward Stone; William Rhodes; William Cox; Joseph Barbee; George Herendon; John Barbee; Christopher Barbee; John Patterson; William Pickett; John West; James Acock; Arthur Cook
Places
Orange County Court House; Tower Hill; Court House in Corbintown
Other dates
25th Day of July next

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 25-188'
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 52
  • 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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