Orange County Indexed
Road order: Jno Moore
23 November 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed Jno Moore to replace Couch on the road east of New Hope and assigned seventeen workers.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- November 1790 term, 23 November 1790
- People
- Jno Moore (road overseer)
- Road hands
- Edw’d Couch; Aaron Estis; Bun Sears; Jno S????; Phil Allen; Geo Daniel; Wm Hudson Jr; Ch?? ???; Jno Robertson; Jno Duggar; Leo’d Duggar; Alex’r Duggar; Chas Edwards; Jos Bilbow; Jas Davis; Ric’d Davis; Rose Sears; Edward Couch
- Places
- New Hope
Reading note: The creek name and two workers’ names were incomplete; Couch later appeared as Edward Couch.
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 314
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
