A single slip, written on one side only.
Craven County Court order to James Roach and Church Chapman, overseers of the Swift Creek road – 1830
Transcription notes: spelling, capitalization and punctuation follow the original. Words in [square brackets] are editorial notes; [?] marks an uncertain reading and [illegible] marks words that could not be read.
Craven County Court.
November Term A.D. 1830
Ordered, that Notice issue to James Roach and Church [?] Chapman Overseers of Swift Creek to shew cause at next Court why a part of the hands under their command as Overseers should not be placed on the road of which David Clark is Overseer.
Attest J. G. Stanly Clerk
About the original
Road overseers were appointed by the county court and called out the men living along their stretch of road (the “hands”) to keep it up. Here the court wanted to move some of the hands working under James Roach and Chapman to David Clark’s road. The overseers were ordered to come to the next court and give a reason why it should not be done.
Chapman’s first name looks like “Church,” which may be a nickname or a shortened name. The clerk, J. G. Stanly, also signed other Craven County court papers in this collection.
Source: Craven County Court order to James Roach and Church Chapman, overseers of the Swift Creek road. Roach Family Papers (#346), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Box 1, Folder d (Legal Records, 1784–1901). Collection guide. Digitized folder: ECU Digital Collections, 0346-b1-fd.
Images courtesy of East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. View in ECU Digital Collections: 35864.
Also from this folder: Swift Creek residents hire Turner Nelson as teacher of “Reading writing and Arithmetic” in 1823.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
