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Road order: Francis Morland

26 November 1782 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Francis Morland oversaw the road from Cross Roads near Wm. Road’s to Anderson Comer’s, with workers belonging to seventeen named people.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
November 1782 term, 26 November 1782
People
Road hands
Josiah Baugh; Wm. Patterson; Sam'l. Sheperd; Patterson Daniel; David Grissom; Anderson Comers; Roger Daniel; Dan'l. Watson; Sam'l. Merritt; Francis Morland; John Green; Dan'l. Green; Wm. Green; Ephraim Searles; John Mitchum; Wm. Pickett; Jesse Pickett
Places
Cross Roads near Wm. Road's (Rhodes); Anderson Comer'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 9-135
  • 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 7 (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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