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Road order

August 1764 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Thirteen men were appointed to lay out the road from Hart’s Road through Haw River Mill and Jno. Powell’s to Lindley’s Road.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1764 term
Road jury
Richard Simpson; Alexander West; David Hart; John Powell; Elias Powell; Peter Noey; Michael Holt; Nicholas Holt; Thomas Rich; John Robinson; Jessee Oldham; Robert Wells; Hugh Porter
Road hands
Jno. Powell
Places
Hart's Road; Haw River Mill; Jno. Powell's; Lindley's Road; Cape Fare

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 223
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 106
  • 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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