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Road order

June 1759 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Two juries were appointed to lay out a road from Alexander Mebane’s toward the Peedee warehouse route, divided at the Cain Creek meetinghouse.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
June 1759 term
People
Road jury
William Murry; George Allen; Hugh Smith; George Johnson; Ralph Croft; Mathew Woods; James Fruit; Jacob Smith; Daniel McDaniel; William Mebane; Lanclott (?) Armstrong; John Wright; James Campbell; Thomas Brooks; Joel Brooks; Zachariah Martin; Ambrose Smith; John Gardenor; Daniel Norris; Peter Youngblood; James Williams; Hugh Laughlin; Shedrick Jacobs; John Rhodes; Aaron Pinson
Places
Plantation of Alexander Mebane; Country trading path; Peedee River; Quaker Meeting at Cain Creek; Meeting House; Court House in Corbintown

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 25-189
  • 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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