Orange County Indexed
Road order
26 August 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed twelve men to inspect and mark a road via Bulls’s smith shop toward Trolingers Ford, reporting next term.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- August 1789 term, 26 August 1789
- Road jury
- Hugh McAdams; Rob Fosset; Hugh Crawford; James McAdams; Joseph McAdams; John Beason; Henry Beason; Jacob Beason; Richard Foster; John Elmore; Sam’l Mebane; James Anderson
- Road hands
- Wm Mebanes; Richard Bulls
- Places
- Wm Mebanes branch; Richard Bulls Smith Shop; Trolingers ford; Haw River
Reading note: The name of an intervening road 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 227
- 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).
