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Road order

August 1777 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Twelve jurors were appointed to lay out the route toward Hillsborough from Chatham courthouse across Haw River at Morgans mill to the county line.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1777 term
Road jury
John King; Thomas Lloyd; John Hogan; Henry Morris; William Stroud; Thomas Connelly; Jesse Nevill; John Morgan; William Parton; Wm. McCauley; Wm. Hightower; Thomas Raiborne
Places
Hillsboro'; Chatham Court House; Haw River; Morgans Mill; Chatham County Line

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 4-8½
  • 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 5 (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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