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Mill: Michael Holt, Lodowick Clap

August 1763 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Four commissioners were appointed to value two riverside acres for Henry Eustice McCullock’s proposed water gristmill.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
August 1763 term
People
Places
Trading Path ford of Haw River
Amounts
an acre; other acre

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
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 87
  • 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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