Orange County Indexed
Road order: Sam’l Sheppard
28 November 1788 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed Sam’l Sheppard overseer of the Rhodes–Comers road and assigned fourteen named workers.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- November 1788 term, 28 November 1788
- People
- Sam’l Sheppard (road overseer)
- Road hands
- Wm Rhodes; Anderson Comers; Owen Watson; Christopher Daniel; Patterson Dannel; Rover Dannel; Abraham Anderson; Wm Mainer; Sam’l Merit; Jno Merrit; Wm Blaney?; Jno Cook; Wm Turner; Jno Huske; ?? Picket; Mark Picket
- Places
- Anderson Comers old place
Reading note: Wm Blaney? was uncertain and ?? Picket lacked a readable given name.
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 185
- 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).
