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Road order

February 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Eighteen named men were appointed to lay out and open a road from Hawfield meeting house to James Clarks on Little River.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1778 term
Road jury
Cairnes Tinning; John Tinning; George Allen; Alex Mebane; Henry Mason; Robt. Anderson; John Allen; Laurence Thompson; David Anderson; William Tate; Robert Barcly; Richard Fossitt; James Hugh; Saml. Allen; John Taylor; Wm. Rainey; Thomas Lapslie; Thomas Thompson
Places
Hawfield Meeting House; James Clarks; Little River

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 18-35½
  • 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 15 (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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