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Road order

26 November 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court appointed fourteen men to survey a road from Davis’s Shop across the Flat River bridge to Hillsborough, rescinding the former order.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
November 1788 term, 26 November 1788
Road jury
John Latta; James Moore; James Latta; John Latta Jr; John Nichols; Wm Jameson; John Neely; Sam’l Torrentine; Hugh Woods; John Carrington; Abram Davis; Tho Horton; Anthony Cozort; James Cozort
Places
Davis’s Shop; Hillsbo; flatt river; Carrington’s
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/188: February 1789 term →

Reading note: The adjacent former Order Rescinded was read as replacing the earlier route order, not cancelling this new appointment.

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 170
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
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