Road order: Walter Alves

The court appointed a jury to consider Walter Alves’s proposed road relocation near his house at his expense.

Kind of business

Road order

Court

August 1796 term, 26 August 1796

People

• Walter Alves (petitioner)

Road jury

Wm Cain; Charles Dunagan; Tho Latta Sr; Tho Latta Jr; James Walker; Barney Grimes?; ??? hunt; Moses Fussel; Joseph Britain; James ????; Thomas Horner; Rob’t Duke; Tyree Duke; Tho Hunt; Tho ???

Places

Chappel hill

Reading note: Several road jurors’ names were partly or wholly unreadable; the petition wording was incomplete. One or more personal names or identifying annotations were uncertain in the transcription. One road juror’s name was wholly unreadable; no person row was invented for the placeholder.

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 126
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1796 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).