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Orange County Indexed

Mill: Abner Nash, John Gray, Thomas Hart

November 1764 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Abner Nash received permission for an Enoe River gristmill, with four commissioners appointed to value and lay off Francis Corbin’s acre.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
November 1764 term
People
Places
Enoe River; Childsburg
Amounts
an acre

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 249
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 112
  • 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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