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Road order: Richard Laughlin

November 1782 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Richard Laughlin was appointed overseer from Island Ford to Linley’s Mill.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
November 1782 term
People
Places
Island Ford; Linley's Mill

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 10-136½
  • 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 8 (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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