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Mill: Joshua Potts, Wm. Courtney, John Shels

August 1780 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Joshua Potts’s petition to value an acre adjoining James Patterson’s mill dam was granted; Wm. Courtney, John Shels and John Nichols were appointed valuers.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
August 1780 term
People
Places
Town of Hillsborough; S. side of the Dam
Amounts
one acre

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 47-94½
  • 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 50 (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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