Orange County Indexed
Mill: Sam’l? Umstead, Wm Laws, George Laws
26 August 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Umstead’s mill petition, the court ordered commissioners to value one acre on each bank and summon opposite landowner Archibald Harris.
- Kind of business
- Mill
- Court
- August 1788 term, 26 August 1788
- People
- Sam’l? Umstead (petitioner)
- Wm Laws (commissioner)
- George Laws (commissioner)
- Geo Guess (commissioner)
- Wm Roberts (commissioner)
- Archibald Harris
- Places
- flatt river
- Amounts
- one acre
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 138
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
