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Road order

February 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Eleven workers were assigned to the public road from John Patterson’s to the chapel.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1778 term
Road hands
Joseph Burnett; Jos. Harod; Turner Harold; Howell Harold; Thos Smith; John Boothe; Thomas Coulter; John Robertson; Cloud Bailey; John Coulter; Boling Hunnutt
Places
John Patterson's; Chapell

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 17-34
  • 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 14 (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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