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Road order: Thomas Bowls

26 May 1795 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

On Thomas Bowls’s petition, a jury was assigned to mark a new road around his plantation.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1795 term, 26 May 1795
People
Road jury
Thomas Roundtree; Jno Thompson; David Allison; James Murdock Sr; Jas Murdock Jr; Will’m McRea; Jno Wood St; David Boring; Jno Armstrong; Mich’l Robertson; Charles Roundtree; Jas Robertson; Rob’t Hall; Wm Bowles

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 5, page 10
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1795 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 30003, “County Court Minutes, 1795–1804” (State Archives film).
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