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Road order: Nathaniel Kimbrough

September 1759 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was appointed for the road from James Trice’s toward Halifax; Nathaniel Kimbrough and Benjamin Saxon became overseers.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
September 1759 term
People
Road jury
Joseph Barbee; John Barbee; Henry Beasley; Christian Rhodes; James Trice; Edward Trice; John Trice; Mark Morgan; Hezkiah Rhodes; Nathaniel Kimbro; Jacob Bledsoe; Benjamin Saxon
Places
Great Road; Cape Fare; Halifax

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 55
  • 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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