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Orange County Indexed

Mill: Francis Dossett

May 1763 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The county surveyor was ordered to lay out an acre on each side of Rocky River for Francis Dossett’s water gristmill.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
May 1763 term
People
Places
N Side of Rocky River; S Side
Amounts
an acre; one on S Side

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 26
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 79
  • 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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