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40 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL LANDMARK APPLICATION <br /> already-mentioned millers and surveyors, included carpenters,joiners, c.hairmakers, and coffin <br /> makers; shoemakers, tanners, leather workers, and saddlers; wheelwrights, wainwrights, and <br /> wagoners; blacksmiths, coopers, and ironmongers; maltsters; weavers and tailors; and chain <br /> carriers for surveyors. Quaker women were spinners and weavers and made candles, dyes, soaps, <br /> and medicines. When Corbinton (later Hillsborough) was established as the county seat and one- <br /> acre lots were laid out in 1754, some nearby Quaker landowners purchased lots on which to erect <br /> '`ordinaries"—inns or drinking houses that could take advantage of court days, market days, and. <br /> meetings of the Road Commissioners when more people would come to town. Legally, to save <br /> their lots, the owners were required to erect a minimal frame structure measuring at least sixteen <br /> by twenty feet. Thus, most of the ordinaries were quite modest, but they provided another source <br /> of income for the Quakers. None of these ordinaries survive. The Quakers do not appear to have <br /> been associated with other businesses in Corbinton. However, Joseph Maddock built the first <br /> Orange County Jail and then ground-pinned it in 1757 to make it more secure, William <br /> Chambers made various changes to the first Orange County Court House (which he may have <br /> built originally), and William Reed was appointed the first Standard Keeper(Weights and <br /> Measures) for the county.20 <br /> From the first sitting of the Orange County Inferior Court in 1752, Quakers were appointed to <br /> numerous minor public posts. They served as members and overseers of the Road Juries, which <br /> conducted the pioneer work of cutting roads through the forested Eno Valley and re-cutting them <br /> at regular intervals, thereby maintaining access to the Corbinton area for travelers and settlers. <br /> Quakers were repeatedly chosen as constables in their own sections, and they constituted a large <br /> 2°Engstrom,20,22-24. <br /> 18 <br />