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Road order

August 1765 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Fifteen men were appointed to lay out a road from Redfields ford on Haw River to New Hope Chapel.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1765 term
Road jury
Nathaniel Milton; Luke Bynum; Robert Cellars; James Cellars; Christopher Kirksey; Anson Milton; Robert Patterson; William Griffin; Vachel Clarke; James Rigsby; Thomas Durham; John Price; James Hogwood; Isaac Kirksey; John Gunter
Places
Redfields ford; Haw River; New Hope Chapel

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 409
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 130
  • 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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