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Road order

May 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court appointed a jury to survey a route from William Galbreaths’s ferry through Joseph Hodges’s property to the university.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1794 term
Road hands
Joseph Hodges
Road jury
James Clendennin; Nath’l Mc???; Thomas Howard; Robert Moore; Thomas Brewer; Richard Christmas; Wm Andrews; Ezekiel Brewer; Sackfield Brewer; Wm Kirk; Jas Kirk; Wm Clendennin; Reubin Smith; John Kennady, Jr; Wm Galbreath; Matthew Woods; Thomas Cate road; Benjamin Cate; Thomas Bradshaw
Places
William Galbreaths ferry; university

Reading note: Nath’l Mc??? was incomplete; road followed Thomas Cate; Wm Galbreath also appeared as William Galbreaths.

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 552
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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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