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Road order: Thos. Kirkland

4 March 1786 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Thos. Kirkland became overseer from Wm. Rhodes to John Weams, with eleven named hands assigned to repairs.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1786 term, 4 March 1786
People
Road hands
Wm. Rhodes; John Weams; Alex. Rhodes; Moses Hutchison; Joseph Barbie; Vincent Larkman; Turner _ero_ ?; Edw. Couch; John Patterson; Mark Patterson; Richard Davis; Wm. Hart; Michael Kenneday
Places
Wm. Rhodes; John Weams

Reading note: Turner’s surname was partly missing and questioned.

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 22-277
  • 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 23 (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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