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Orange County Indexed

Road order: Moses Crawford

May 1780 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Moses Crawford and other petitioners received leave to divert the road from Hillsborough to Howell’s Ferry on Haw River.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1780 term
People
Places
Hillsborough; Howell's Ferry; Haw 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 44-88
  • 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 47 (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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