Orange County Indexed
Road order: Wm Watters, Jno Estes
27 February 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered the old route through Thompsons to Hillsborough reopened, assigned listed residents’ laborers, and named Watters and Estes as overseers.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- February 1788 term, 27 February 1788
- People
- Wm Watters (road overseer)
- Jno Estes (road overseer)
- Jno Taylor (esq)
- Road hands
- Alfred Moore; James Thompson; Samuel Chambers; Wm Lytle; Archibald Lytle; Jno Allison; Wm McCauley; Wm Courtney; David Ray; A Tatom
- Places
- Minnes’s road; James Thompsons; Hillsboro
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 98
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1788 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).
