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Road order

26 August 1779 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The old road from Col. Alexander Mebanes to Hopkins Ferry was ordered opened and cleared.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1779 term, 26 August 1779
Places
Col. Alexander Mebanes; Hopkins Ferry

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 37-74½
  • 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 39 (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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