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Orange County Indexed

Road order: Wm. Petty

August 1761 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Named men and specified taxables were assigned the Haw River–Roberson’s Ford road in Wm. Petty Senior’s district.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1761 term
People
Road hands
Argulus Henderson; Simon Fooshe; Thomas Shields; John Stuart; William Marsh; Simon Poe; Stephen Poe; James Poe; Joseph Fooshe; Cornelius Roe; Wm. Tucker; Elnathan Davis; Charles Clanton; Benjamin Clanton; Robert Colley; Samuel Marsh; Wm McDaniel; Zachariah Martin; Roger Martin; Thomas North; John Brooks; John Crow; John Mullis; John Webster; Charles Webster
Places
Haw River; Roberson's Ford

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 59-256
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 73
  • 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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