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Orange County Indexed

Road order

February 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court authorized overseers to summon adjacent workers unassigned elsewhere, limiting compulsory road labor to twelve days annually.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1797 term
Amounts
twelve days

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 214
  • 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).
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