Orange County Indexed
Road order: Wm Sheppard
2 March 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court assigned workers Brice Collins, Joseph Thompson, James and 6 others and John Armstrong’s laborers to Wm Sheppard’s road section between Collins and Benton’s Mill.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- February 1787 term, 2 March 1787
- People
- Wm Sheppard (road overseer)
- Road hands
- Brice Collins; Joseph Thompson; James; John Paul; John Armstrong; Thomas Bean; John Ward; Joseph Collins; Stephen Hart
- Places
- Brice Collins; Benton’s Mill
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
- Minute book 4, page 10
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1787 term
- 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).
