Orange County Indexed
Road order: Geo Newton
25 February 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed Geo Newton to oversee the road between Little River’s forks and assigned eight workers.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- February 1790 term, 25 February 1790
- People
- Geo Newton (road overseer)
- Road hands
- Edw’d Wortham; Jno Watson; Jno Kneely; Jno Riggs; James Riggs; Joseph Wood; Robert Walker; James Ross
- Places
- So fork of little river; North fork
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 265
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1790 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).
