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Orange County Indexed

Mill: James Lanckston

August 1766 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

James Lanckston received permission to build a water gristmill on Flat River at Cedar Island.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
August 1766 term
People
Places
Flat River; Cedar Island

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 452
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 138
  • 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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