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Road order

February 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Twelve men were appointed to lay out a road from the Caswell County line near Taps mill toward the Johnston ordinary–Abercrombie road.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1778 term
Road jury
James Scarlett; James Carrington; Warham Glenn; William Ray; John Tilley; William Alston; James Horton; John Wilkinson; Robert Forsythe; John Bridges; Stephen Wilson; Benj. Forrestt
Places
Caswell County Line; Taps Mill; Thos. Gibsons; James Cains; Johnstons Ordinary; Capt. Charles Abercrombies

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 15-30
  • 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 12 (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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