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Road order: William Byars

February 1764 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

William Byars became overseer from Deep Creek toward the county line near Jonas Parker’s, using workers belonging to twelve named men.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1764 term
People
Road hands
Robert Bumpass; Jonas Parker; Samuel Parker; John Day; John Bumpass; John Trap; John Hamlet; George Cauley; Samuel Yarborough; John Bridges; Thomas Bridges; John Sowell
Places
Deep Creek; Stripland's path; Old Road; new Road; Country line; Jonas Parker'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 150
  • 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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