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Road order: Wm. Savage

11 September 1759 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was appointed to lay out Hogan’s Creek road to Orange Courthouse, with John Cantril and Wm. Savage overseeing it.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
September 1759 term, 11 September 1759
People
Road jury
Daniel McCulloch; Benjamin King; Thomas Hughs; Edward Denney; William Grimes; Nathaniel Hart; John Cantril; William Savage; Joseph Cantril; Thomas Thompson; Christopher Logue; Cairns Tinnen; Benjamin Keadle; Zachariah Keadle
Places
Hogan's Creek; Orange Courthouse

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 30-198
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 54
  • 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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