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Mill: Wm. Galbreath

26 August 1777 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

An order concerning Wm. Galbreath’s gristmill on Back Creek at Fish Dam was waived.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
August 1777 term, 26 August 1777
People
Places
Back Creek; Fish Dam

Reading note: The incomplete wording ends be waved; the precise requirement waived is unclear.

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 4-7½
  • Published abstract: Alma Cheek Redden, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Orange County, N.C., 1777–1788, page 4 (Orange County Public Library, NC 929.375 HAU)
  • 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 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
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