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Road order: Joseph Stubbins

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

The court assigned named workers and residents’ unnamed hands to Joseph Stubbins’s road from Hillsborough to Nelsons branch.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1795 term, 27 May 1795
People
Road hands
Alfred Moore; Samuel Benton; Edward Turner; Jno McCallum; Carrigan; Joseph Thompson; Kenneth Anderson; Peter Wrightsman; Leigh P????; Redmond Perry; Thomas Crabtree
Places
Hillsborough; Nelsons branch

Reading note: Carrigan’s given name and Leigh’s surname were incomplete; unnamed workers’ status was unstated.

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 22
  • 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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