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Road order: Robert Pendergrass

19 May 1761 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was appointed for the courthouse road through Pendergrasses ford to Tucker’s Road; Isaac Collins and Robert Pendergrass became overseers.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1761 term, 19 May 1761
People
Road jury
William Griffin; William Bynum; James Rigsby; Robert Patterson; Thomas Durham; John Edwards; Gideon Kirksey; Christopher Kirksey; John King; Isaac Collins; John Collins; Henry Brewer
Places
Courthouse; Pendergrasses Ford; Morgan's Creek; Tucker's Road; Robert Patterson's Plantation

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 53-243
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 67
  • 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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