Orange County Indexed
Road order: James Strayhorn
25 August 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed James Strayhorn as road overseer, replacing David ?????.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- August 1789 term, 25 August 1789
- People
- James Strayhorn (road overseer)
- Road hands
- David ?????; William [Couch?]; Gilbert Strayhorns
- Places
- William [Couch?]; the fork at or near Gilbert Strayhorns
Reading note: Couch was an uncertain supplied reading, and the former overseer’s surname after David 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 224
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
