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Road order: Mark Patterson

November 1779 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Mark Patterson was appointed overseer from Ellerbe Creek to the old road near John Patterson’s, with named workers and an additional unnamed hand.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
November 1779 term
People
Road hands
Thomas Kirkland; Anthony Pinler; Benj. Pinler; Jacob Redwine; William Pickett; Moses Hutchins; John Rhodes; Isaac Williams; William Rhodes
Places
Ellerbe Creek; old Road near John Patterson's

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 38-77
  • 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 41 (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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