Orange County Indexed
Road order: Tobias Rogers
August 1797 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
A motion to compensate Tobias Rogers for the bridge at Matthew McCauleys mill failed when the justices divided evenly.
- Kind of business
- Road order
- Court
- August 1797 term
- People
- Tobias Rogers (petitioner)
- Road hands
- Matthew McCauleys
- Justices
- William Rainey; William Shepperd; William Strudwick; James Christmas; Hardy Hawkings; Shadrick Forrest; John Umstead; Arch’d Cammel; John Taylor; James Baldridge; John Sloss; Hardy Hurdle; Sterling Harris; William Lytle; John Hogg; Benjamin Lacy; James Carson; Absalom Tatom
- Places
- Morgans Creek; Matthew McCauleys mill
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 282
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
