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Orange County Indexed

Road order: Benj. Hearndon

August 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Named workers were assigned to overseer Benj. Hearndon.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1778 term
People
Road hands
Samuel Linton; Nathan Almond; Richard Hopson; Enoch Lewis; Wm. Horn Edw. Trice; Alex Massey; Abijah Massey; Joseph Trice; James Trice

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 26-53
  • 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 25 (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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