Orange County Indexed
Road order: Walter Alves, Lewis
February 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court appointed Walter Alves road overseer and assigned workers, including enslaved Lewis.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- February 1797 term
- People
- Walter Alves (road overseer)
- Lewis (enslaved person; enslaved by William Leathers)
- Road hands
- Hugh; Allen Cain; William Leathers; John William; Fielding; John Watson
- Places
- Little river; Murphy’s Branch
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 211
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1797 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).
