Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Road order

November 1793 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court appointed a jury to survey a road from the University toward Chatham and report.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
November 1793 term
Road jury
Wm Pendergast; Edmund Jones; Wm Picket; Thomas Connelly; Alex’r Piper; Sam’l Piper; Jno Hogan; Abraham Piper; John Fann; Ben Yeargan; Abijah Massey; Matthew McCauley; John Connally; John Wilson; John Owin; Hermon Colter; ??? Dannel; James Patterson
Places
University; Chatham line; red field ford

Reading note: Dannel’s given name was unreadable.

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 498
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1793 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).
Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026