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Road order

August 1763 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Named men were ordered to open the Hico–county-line road; local inhabitants were assigned maintenance under John Satterfield.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1763 term
Road jury
William Rankin; John Satterfield; James Sattercield; Bidwell Satterfield; Hosea Tapley; John Camp; Henry Ford; Edward Moore; David Vanhook; Thomas Flynn; Henry Gold; Joseph King; John Allen Tharp; Samuel Fulton; Elijah Eastwood; Benjamin Tharpe; Jacob Garnett
Road hands
James Boling
Places
Hico (Vanhook's); Country line; Tarborough Road; Granville County; Flatt River; Deep Creek; South Fork; Napper Reeds; James Boling's

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 85
  • 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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