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Road order: James Copeland

August 1760 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was appointed for the road from Robert Patterson’s toward the county line; John Brantley and James Copeland became overseers.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1760 term
People
Road jury
John Brantley; Richard Braswell; Moses Ginn; Joseph Kirk; Charles Clanton; William Petty; James Crawford; Thomas Tucker; Joseph Brantley; Nicholas Copeland; Hercules Henderson; John Stewart
Road hands
Robert Patterson
Places
Robert Patterson's Plantation; Colling's Ford; Haw River; Hoge's Ford; Deep River; Cape Fare

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 40-217
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 61
  • 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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