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Road order

August 1764 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Named men were appointed to lay out the road from the Rowan line opposite Frazier’s Road toward Cross Creek.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1764 term
Road jury
Windsor Pierce (?); Jeffrey Beek (Buk ?); Christopher Monday; John Needham; John Williamson; John Needham; James Pittman; James Graves; Ralph Himwolt; Charles Strange; Solomon Morgan; John Purslay; Peter Fucannon; William Searcy; Henry Smith; Adam Andress; John Garner; John Lawrence; Jno Rhodes
Places
Rowan line; Frazier's Road; Cross Creek

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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