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Road order: Wm. Caine

February 1785 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Wm. Caine became overseer from his house to Jacob Branton’s, with hands Jacob Branton, Thomas James, Jno. Horner and 22 others assigned.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1785 term
People
Road hands
Jacob Branton; Thomas James; Jno. Horner; Thomas Mehaffy; Howell Hunt; Stephen Scarlet; James Dunning; Nath'l. Lewis; Jno. Woods; W. Cheney; Sam'l. Clenny; Jno. Kelley; James Caine; Nicholas Dunning; David Copland; Thomas Holden; Jno. Douglas; James Latta; Wm. Clark; Barna Gresham; Hugh Woods; Jonathan Montgomery; Anthony Daugherty; Jonathan Nichols; Wm. Montgomery
Places
his own house; Jacob Branton'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 2-237½
  • 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 2 (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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