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Road order: William Lea

March 1760 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was appointed for the road from John Roberson’s toward Solomon Debow’s and McCoy’s mill; William Lea became overseer.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
March 1760 term
People
Road jury
William Serjant; Stephen Serjant; Samuel Bell; John Campbell; George Bagley; John Fogerson; Thomas Dobbins; John Lea; James Dochester; Thomas Willson; John Walker; Charles Mulholland
Road hands
John Roberson; Solomon Debow; McCoy
Places
John Roberson's; John Campbell's; Stephen Serjant's; Great Road; Solomon Debow's; McCoy's Mill

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 37-211'
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 58
  • 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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