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Road order: Daniel Allen

December 1759 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was appointed for the county-line road near Pinson’s ferry to John Cunningham’s road; Daniel Allen became overseer.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
December 1759 term
People
Road jury
Isaiah Watkins; John Smith; Thomas Lovelatty; John London; Francis Cox; Joshua Brown; Marshal Lovelatty; Mark London; Joseph Thrasher; John Delishment (?); John Smith
Road hands
John Cunningham
Places
Pinson's Ferry; Dan River; Haw River; Salisbury; Rowan County

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 36-209
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 57
  • 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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