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Road order

February 1764 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Eleven jurors were appointed to open the road from Isaac Lowe’s mill through Alexander Mebane’s mill to Woody’s ferry.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1764 term
Road jury
James Anderson; David Anderson; Francis Wilkinson; Thomas Lapsey; James McGown; Thomas Cate; Thomas Cate; Robert Cate; Robert Tinnen; George Allen; Cairnes Tinnen
Road hands
Isaac Lowe; Alexander Mebane
Places
Isaac Lowe's mill; Alexander Mebane's mill; Woody's Ferry; Haw River

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 149
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 97
  • 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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