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Road order: Joseph Hastings Jr

3 March 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court appointed Joseph Hastings Jr as road overseer.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1798 term, 3 March 1798
People
Road hands
James Pratt; Andrew Collins; Martins
Places
Andrew Collins’s to Martins on Woody’s ferry road

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 385
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1798 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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