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Road order

27 February 1783 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A twelve-person jury was appointed to lay out a road from Caswell County through the Abercrombie mill to John Baker’s.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1783 term, 27 February 1783
Road jury
James Carrington; Wm. Ray; Stephen Allen; Thomas Sutton; Thomas Lattie; Jno. Lattie; Chas. Carroll; John Kelley; James Hunter; Geo. Horner; Richard Cates; Benjamin Forrest
Road hands
Chas.; Robt. Abercrombie; John Baker
Places
Caswell County Line; Taps Mill; Enoe River; Chas. & Robt. Abercrombie's Mill; John Baker'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 15-146
  • 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 12 (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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