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Road order

August 1786 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was appointed to lay out the most direct road from Wm. Ansley’s Mill to Hillsborough.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1786 term
Road hands
Wm. Ansley
Road jury
Samson Wood; Levi Cole; Rob. Cates; Wm. Wallace; Samuel Coleman; Wm. Laycock; Lazarus Cole; John Woods; John Kelley; James Few; John Harne
Places
Wm. Ansley's Mill; Hillsborough

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 38-308
  • 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 30 (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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