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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 William Braswell’s ferry on Cape Fare to Hamilton’s store on Crabtree Creek.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1765 term
Road jury
David Chapman; Richard Cheek; Burwell Williams; Joseph Aven ?; Robert Jones; Drury Mims; John Tally; Henry Day; Valentine Braswell; William Ashley; Samuel Lehman; Thomas Seamore; Henry Braswell
Places
William Braswell's ferry; Cape Fare; Hamilton's Store; Crabtree 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 363
  • 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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