Orange County Indexed
Road order: Jesse Benton
29 August 1783 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Hands within the listed inhabitants’ bounds were ordered to work under Jesse Benton from Gallows Hill to the branch between Nelson’s and Baxter’s.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- August 1783 term, 29 August 1783
- People
- Jesse Benton (road overseer)
- Alfred Moore (Col.)
- Road hands
- John Carragan; Edward Watson; Edward Turner; Wm. Shepperd; Thos. Norris; Robt. Burnside; Jno. M. Cotton; Jno. Thompson; Robt. Nelson; James Young; Peter Writisman; Sam'l. Chambers; James Thompson; James Minnis; Wm. Austen; John Bailey; Wm. Bailey
- Places
- Hartford; Gallows Hill; Branch betwixt Nelson's and Baxter'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 27-170
- 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 20 (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).
