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Road order: Bruce Collins

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

Named inhabitants and their hands were assigned to roads from Hamilton’s Branch to Hartford under Bruce Collins.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1783 term, 29 August 1783
People
Road hands
William Armstrong; James Armstrong; James Paul; Alexander McCracken; George Bradford; Andrew Patton; Jos. Hamilton; Henry Mason; Robt. Tinnen; Jesse Thomas; Edward Thomas; Thomas McCracken; Winstead; John Collins; Mimni ?; Wm. Shepperd
Places
Kerrigans; Numans old Plantation; Hamilton's Branch; Hartford

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 27-170½
  • 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).
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