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Road order: Edward Couch

November 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court appointed Edward Couch overseer of the Dry Creek–New Hope road and assigned eleven named workers.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
November 1789 term
People
Road hands
Jno Moore; Joseph Bilbow; Wm Wills Green; Geo Dannel; Wm H?????n; Philip Allen; Roze Sears; Joseph Harwood Sr; Grey Boothe; Zachariah Bevil; Rich’d Davis
Places
dry Creek; New hope

Reading note: Wm H?????n was incomplete.

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 247
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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