Road order: Burges Harrelson, Thomas Douglass

A jury was appointed to lay out two roads, with named workers and Burges Harrelson and Thomas Douglass as overseers.

Kind of business

Road order

Court

November 1764 term

People

• Burges Harrelson (road overseer)
• Thomas Douglass (road overseer)

Road jury

Robert McFarland; Rob't McFarland; William Hawkins; Hugh Barnett; William Chambers; Burges Harrelson; Paul Harrelson; William Barnett; J. Harley; John Long; John Douglass; Moses Walker

Road hands

William Miles; Thomas Barnett; Henry Willice; Giles Tuckey ? or Tinkey ?; James Cavanaugh; Benjamin Long; Edward Nash; Robert Harrilson; Robert Barnett; Thomas Mullin; David Embrie; John Tabor; Timothy Tony ?; Samuel McMurry; Robert McFarland; Silvester Stokes; Robert McFarland; Silvester Stokes; Moses Walker; William Hawkins; John Hurtley; Walter Butler; William Barnett; John Lusk; John Long; Thomas Douglass; John Douglass; James Byass; Josias Olday; Jacob Womack; Hugh Barnett; Paul Harrelson; Paul Ham; Burges Harrelson; Garrett Guttery; Edward Chambers; Michael Cockburne; Wm. Chambers

Places

Granville line; David Embry's old place; Hugh Barnetts; Rosters Ferry; Mayo's; Lawrence Rambo's; Hico; John Pryor's; Hico ford

Reading note: Continues on PDF117. Repeated names retain separately stated jury, worker and overseer roles; uncertain worker names and spelling variants are retained.

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 248
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 111
• 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).