Orange County Indexed
Road order: Theophilus Thompson, Williams
24 November 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court accepted the jury’s rerouted-road report and directed Theophilus Thompson to open the route, with Williams’s laborers maintaining it.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- November 1790 term, 24 November 1790
- People
- Theophilus Thompson (petitioner)
- Williams (road overseer)
- Road jury
- Jno Estis; Wm Whitehead; Jehu Whitehead; Joseph Moore; Thomas Watts; Joseph Stubbins; And’w Burke; Henry Thompson; Rob’t Ferguson; Geo Clinecy; Newman; Sterling Harris
- Places
- Town; Gen’l Persons
Reading note: Clinecy? was uncertain; Newman’s and Williams’s given names were illegible.
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 315
- 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).
