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Road order

May 1807 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court ordered a jury to lay out the best route from Mrs Sears’s path to the Newhope bridge near Charles Colliers.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1807 term
Road hands
Mrs Sears; Charles Collier
Places
Chapel Hill; Raleigh; Newhope

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 7, page 299
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1807 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 30004, “County Court Minutes, 1805–1814” (State Archives film).
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