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Road order: Michael Holt

August 1761 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Michael Holt Junior became overseer near Pine Ford; ten men were ordered to lay out the connection from Trollinger’s ferry.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1761 term
People
Road jury
William Raney; John Pearson; Benjamin Phillips; Jesse Phillips; Jacob Holt; John Gant; Thomas Sharpe; Adam Trollinger; Henry Trollinger; John Powell
Places
Pine Ford; Haw River; fork of the Road westward; Trollinger's Ferry

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 59-255
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 72
  • 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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