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Road order

May 1765 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Thirteen jurors were appointed to lay out a road from Red Fields ford to the Western Road at Little River.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1765 term
Road jury
Robert Patterson; James Rigsby; Robert Pendergrass; Luke Bynum; Thomas Durham; John Edwards; William Castleberry; Solomon Draper; William Rhodes; Thomas Forrist; William Forrist; Benjamin Forrist; Edward Gresham
Places
Red Fields; Western Road; Little River; Mr. Johnston's

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 362
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 124
  • 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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