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Road order: Samuel Parker

August 1763 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Workers William Miles, John Boyd, Charles Phillips and 7 others were assigned the road to John West Senior’s plantation under Samuel Parker.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1763 term
People
Road hands
William Miles; John Boyd; Charles Phillips; Solomon West; Ralph Shaw; David Knight; Edmund Bailey; Hezekiah Collins; Charles Phillips; Walter Thetford; Isaiah Thetford
Places
Plantation of John West, Sr

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 54
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 84
  • 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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