Mill: Richard Ashe, Samuel Child, James Morrow

After recording the commissioners’ report, the court authorized James and Elias Millican’s mill; they paid the ordered compensation to Samuel Child and Richard Ashe.

Kind of business

Mill

Court

August 1818 term, 28 August 1818

People

• Richard Ashe (petitioner)
• Samuel Child (petitioner)
• James Millican
• Elias Millican
• James Morrow (commissioner)
• William Morrow (commissioner)
• Alexander Pickard (commissioner)
• John Bonner (commissioner)

Places

Cain Creek

Amounts

one acre; Eight Dollars

Other dates

23d day of August 1817; 23d August 1813; 27th August 1817

Reading note: The boundary text was interrupted and partly unreadable; the report conflicted on dates and land ownership. The decree explicitly recorded payment by the Millicans.

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 9, page 574
• Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1818 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 30005, “County Court Minutes, 1815–1826” (State Archives film).