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Road order

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

The court ordered a jury summoned to reroute the road away from Pattons’s plantation and report next term; a February issuance was noted.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
August 1790 term, 25 August 1790
Road hands
Sam’l Pattons
Road jury
Jno Walker; Jno Griffen; Thos Lynch; Joseph Thompson; David Bradford; James Roney; Rob’t Faucett; McRory; Jas McAdams; Hugh McAdams; Hugh Crawford; Jacob Bason; ???rge Johnston Sr; Jas Turner; Wm Mebane
Other dates
Feb 91

Reading note: McRory’s given name and the start of Johnston’s given name were illegible. Three names followed the reporting direction.

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 303
  • 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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