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Road order

August 1763 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was appointed for the road from Johnsons Line to Cape Fare Road; Christopher Barbee became overseer.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1763 term
Road jury
Edward Herring; Edward Sorrell; Benjamin Blake; Tignal Jones; Nathaniel Jones; Christopher Barbee; Henry Beasley; Benjamin Saxon; Samuel Saxon; Richard Hopson; Nathaniel Almond; Samuel Parks; John Booth; Dred Bennett; William Dorom? (Durham ?); George Herndon; John Trice; James Acock; Joseph Barbee
Road hands
James Trice
Places
Johnsons Line; Edward Herring's spring; Cape Fare Road

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 55
  • 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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