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Road order: Henry White

August 1785 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Henry White became overseer from Back Creek through Deep Creek and John Collin’s Ordinary to the road fork below Collin’s Mill.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1785 term
People
Road hands
John Collin
Places
Back Creek; Deep Creek; John Collin's Ordinary; Collin's Mill; forke of the Road

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 10-252½
  • 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 10 (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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