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Road order: Robert Campbell, John Taylor Jr, Pleasant Henderson

February 1802 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Robert Campbell and fellow commissioners were appointed to contract for a Newhope Creek bridge and obtain a maintenance bond from the builder.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
February 1802 term
People
Places
Newhope Creek; University; Raleigh
Amounts
five hundred pounds
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/306: May 1802 term →

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 6, page 274
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1802 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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