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Road order

7 August 1764 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Sixteen men were appointed to lay out a road from the Rowan–Orange boundary across Sandy Creek toward Cape Fare.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1764 term, 7 August 1764
Road jury
Tydence (?) Lane; Thomas Albred; Herman Cox; Adam Mofit; William Wilbourne; Semore York; Henry York; Edward Wilbourne; Wm. Homes; Isaac Kirnes (?); John Hayes; Wm. Norton; John Springer; James Martin; Edward Cowan; Jacob Polk
Places
Rowan; Orange; Sandy Creek; Guess's Mill; Cape Fare
Amounts
about 2 miles

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 221
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 104
  • 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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