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Road order

February 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A jury was assigned to survey the requested route through Hawkins’s and David Pattersons’s properties toward Christian Cobles’s former place.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1794 term
People
Road hands
Christian Cobles
Road jury
Joseph Noe; David Patterson; James Patterson; Peter Ingold; John Coonts; John Hawkins; Peter Hilton Jr; Conrod Coy [Loy?]; Martin Shoftner; Peter Fogleman; Henry Coble; William Patterson
Places
Mays ford

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 542
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1794 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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