Robeson County NcArchives Photo Document.....Minutes ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donna Newman centavo@lserv.com November 16, 2012, 9:56 am Source: F H L Microfilm #554636 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes2338gph.jpg Image file size: 249.2 Kb County court minutes 1797-1813, North Carolina, Superior Court (Robeson County) (/) torn [Deeds were always either "acknowledged in open court" or "proved by oath of...." and then ordered to be registered; to eliminate redundancy, these have been abstracted simply as "acknowledged" or "proved by...."] Page 28 [image 17a] Ordered that the sheriff summon the following gentlemen to atend as jurors next / to wit / Angus Gilchrist Noah Pitman Senr Phillip Blount James Biggs Senr James Russel Zedekiah Pope Josiah Grantham Albritain Drake George Grimsley Benjamin Lewis Hector McNeill / Fidler? / Slaughter Hill Moses Grantham Ithamer Gaddy James Pitman Junr Silas Drake Peter Smith Hugh Brown Hugh Campbell Hector McNeill / Taylor / Othniel Traywick Aaron Strickland Senr Daniel Regan Daniel Low Wm Bird Wright Legatt James Smith John McMillan / Goosepond / Kenar? Hawthorne & Jesse Philip On application Joseph Wood Esquire is admited to keep a publick ferry across the lake of the Great? Swamp and that he take the following toll / to wit / two shillings for horse and chair man & horse 1/ waggon & team 4/- cart 2/- foot man 6d & 2nd [2d?] pr? head of cattle - Ordered that Alexander McNeill be overseer of the road in room of Daniel Johnston Ordered that Agerton Willis & John Powell be patroles in Captain Moors district Ordered that Neill McNeill bring to next court John Kersey an apprentice boy which is bo[u]nd to him and show cause why he may not be taken from him Court adjourned until court in course H McKay Wm Hawthorn George Moore Page 29 [image 17b] At a County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions began and held for the County of Robeson on Monday the second day of April and twenty second year of American Independence AD 1798 Present the worshipful Joseph Regan James McNeil & Joshua Pharoah Esquires On application John Blount is admited to turn the road round his plantation on his making the same in good order Ordered that John Johnston be overseer of the road in room of Angus McBride Ordered that Samuel Smith and Archibald Smith work on the road cros[s]ing the Burnt Swamp in room of Kinchen Killebrew and James Killebrew Ordered that Joshua Ammon be overseer of the road in room of Thomas Shanks Benjamin Jenkins exempt from working on publick roads for reasons shown Ordered that John McArthur be overseer of the road in room of Duncan Murphy Upon the suggestion of John Regan & Joseph Wood that they consider themselves in danger from their being secuirty of Samuel Regan as guardian of Richard Regan it is therefore ordered by this court that the said Samuel Regan appear before said court immediately and five other sufficient Justices which shall be approved by said court & abide by & perform such other order or decree as this court shall judge necessary therein File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes2338gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb