Orange County Indexed
Road order: Hightower
February 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The August road order toward James Williams’s mill was renewed, assigning seventeen named workers under Mr. Hightower.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- February 1778 term
- People
- Hightower (road overseer; Mr.)
- Road hands
- Thomas Raebourne; Thos. Raeborne; Benj. Howell; Bird Haywood; Austin Hightower; George Hightower; William Hightower; John Hightower; Austin Hightower; Jesse Nevil; William Woolsy; Jesse Haywood; John Price; Hugh Edwards; William Stroud; Peter Stroud; Wm. Douglas
- Places
- Hillsbo'; Chatham; James Williams'; Hillsborough; James Williams Mill
- Other dates
- Augt. Court
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 16-31
- 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).
