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Orange County Indexed

Mill: Benjamin Guess

February 1761 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Benjamin Guess petitioned for a public gristmill on Granville’s land on Sandy Creek; the earl’s agents were to receive notice.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
February 1761 term
People
Places
waters of Sandy Creek

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 47-231
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 65
  • 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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