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Road order

November 1764 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Eleven jurors were appointed to lay out a road from Lewis Green’s ford on Dann River to Boyd’s mill on Haw River.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
November 1764 term
Road jury
Joseph Pain; Phillip Prator; Richard Simpson; Jesse Oldham; William Porter; Hugh Porter; William Millier; Joseph Prichett; James Prichett; James Starratt; William Boyd
Places
Lewis Green's ford; Dann River; Boyd's Mill; Haw River

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 250
  • 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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