Orange County Indexed
Road order: Wm Riley
29 May 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed Wm Riley to oversee the route from the old Trading Road to Woodys Road and assigned eleven named workers.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- May 1787 term, 29 May 1787
- People
- Wm Riley (road overseer)
- Road hands
- Abner Tapp; Jno Workmans; Jno Leman; Frederick Williams; Barnabus Cate; Joseph Wicks; Philip Austin; Abram Mitchel; Joshua Witty; James Watson; James Riley; Thomas Bailiff
- Places
- old Trading Road; Woodys Road
Reading note: Abner Tapp was also written possessively as Abner Tapps.
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 26
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
