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Road order

February 1761 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Named men and their taxables, with inhabitants of adjoining districts, were ordered to work on the James Cantril–Taylor’s Road connection.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1761 term
Road hands
Solomon West; Hezekiah Collins; John West; Solomon Jones; Wm. Mills; John Mills; Robert Mills; Robert Jones; John O'Daniel; Wm O'Daniel; Thomas Lynch; Francis Wilkinson; Edward Baily; John Boid; Thomas Lapsey; Michael Boyd; Jacob Raily; Daniel Sullivant; James Cantril; Dolittle; Lewis Odean
Places
James Cantril's; Taylor's Road; Dolittle's; Country line Creek; Lewis Odean's; Hoggans Creek; head of Hoggans Creek; head of Country line

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 47-232
  • 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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