Orange County Indexed
Road order: Benjamin Yeargan
27 August 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed Benjamin Yeargan as road overseer.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- August 1788 term, 27 August 1788
- People
- Benjamin Yeargan (road overseer)
- Road hands
- Thomas Co
- Places
- Weems’s Creek; Conally’s Creek
Reading note: Thomas Co??? was an incomplete name; the order reassigned his former laborers and Yeargan’s unnamed laborers.
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 154
- 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).
