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 July 28, 2013, 7:48 pm Source: F H L Microfilm #554636 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes508nph.jpg Image file size: 172.0 Kb County court minutes 1797-1813, North Carolina, Superior Court (Robeson County) – 1806-1813 (/) torn or otherwise too damaged to read [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 150 [image 295a] Ordered that the following take the List of Taxable property in this County for the present year To Wit Captain Barnes district – Nicholas Powell Sterlings district – William Sterling Drakes district – Thomas Sewell Jordans district – Malcom Nicholson Popes district – Joseph Newberry Sullivans district – Joseph Wood Blounts district – Angus Taylor Biggs district – Daniel Buie McKays district – William McNeill McPhatters district – Archd McNeill Junr McNeills district – Archd McNeill Senr Littles district – John Little Esquire The sheriff returned the Venire Facias when the following gentlemen were selected to serve as Grand Jurors during this term to Wit John Storm Foreman William Barnes Duncan Little Isaac Sullivan Robert Inman Warren Alford Mathew Jones Thomas HIll Thomas Musselwhite Simon Willis John Regan William McRie Duglas Powell And at the same time Jacob Mercer was sworn Constable to attend them Page 151 [image 295b] Ordered that Jacob Blount Junr be overseer of the road form the ten mile swamp to Lumberton except that parte on wich Jacob Rhodes is oversear (that parte caled the new road) Ordered that Jacob Rhodes be overseer of that parte of the road leading from Lumberton to Fayetteville called the new road which the said Rhodes lately opened and that he work his own hands and no others and to continue as such for six months and deliver the same in good repair Ordered that the old road from Lumberton to Fayetteville be discontinued from where the new road laid off in consequence of Jacob Rhodes pettition to where the two roads intersects each other near Shankses plantation The reporte of the Jury who were appointed to lay of the road from Lumberton to Shanks plantation was presented to the court and on motion the said report was rejected Deed from John Hilborn to Joseph Wood proven by Alfred Rowland Deed from Restone Powell to William Thompson proven by William Thompson Junr File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes508nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb