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Road order: James Moore

24 August 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court appointed James Moore to replace James Ball on the Cain Creek–Meadow road and assigned workers James Ball, James Pickard, Henry Pickard and 15 others.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1790 term, 24 August 1790
People
Road hands
James Ball; James Pickard; Henry Pickard; Tho King; Jno Carrigan; Jinning Gibson; Jno Pickerd; Wm Grimes; Isaac Doyle; John Pennel; James Roach; Tho Howard; Benjamin Dickson; Benjamin McCa???; Thomas Lasley; Alexander Pickard; Archibald Campbell; Randal Ezard
Places
Cain Creek ford; Meadow meeting House

Reading note: Benjamin McCa??? 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 297
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
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