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Road order

25 February 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

After the previous jury failed to agree, the court appointed a replacement jury for the Davis’s Shop–Hillsborough road via the Flat River bridge.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1789 term, 25 February 1789
Road jury
Wm Clark; Geo Newton; Jno Kelley; James Moore; James Watson; James Latta Jr; Tho Horton; Latta; Jno Latta Jr; Jno Carrington; Jas Cozort; Anthony Cozort; Ancil Parish; Edw’d Wortham
Places
Davis’s Shop; Hillsbo; flatt river; Carringtons
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/168: November 1788 term →

Reading note: One Latta’s given name was illegible.

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 190
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1789 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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