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Mill: Isaac Hicks

February 1791 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court initially licensed Isaac Hicks’s public gristmill across Enoe but rescinded that permission the next day.

Kind of business
Mill
Court
February 1791 term
People
Places
Enoe; Orange County
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/322: February 1791 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/340: May 1791 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/321: February 1791 term →

Reading note: The rescission contained an unreadable connecting phrase; the revocation itself was clear.

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 323
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1791 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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