Orange County Indexed
Road order: Richard Davis
27 November 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed Richard Davis road overseer and assigned named workers or their laborers to the Dry Creek–New Hope route.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- November 1788 term, 27 November 1788
- People
- Richard Davis (road overseer)
- Road hands
- Jno Mo????; Edward Couch; Turner Herod; Joseph Bilbow; Wm Wills Green; Geo Daniel; Wm Hudson; Philip Allen; Rose Sears; Joseph Herod; Gray Booth; Benjamin Yeargan
- Places
- dry Creek; new hope
Reading note: Jno Mo???? was an incomplete name; the laborers’ status was unstated.
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 174
- 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).
