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Road order: Wm. Laws, Hugh Caine

29 May 1783 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Wm. Laws resigned as overseer from Little River to Granville, and Hugh Caine replaced him.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1783 term, 29 May 1783
People
Places
Little River; Granville Line

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 20-157
  • 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 16 (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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