Part #4 A traveler, John SAUNDERS who kept a journal, was at Pine Ford during the September 1753 Orange court, he spent the night at KIMBROUGH's ordinary. Neither the courthouse or the Ordinary had been completed. There was still nearly a year left on the contract for the household and jail. John SAUNDERS worked for a company with a store in Suffolk, Virginia. He was in North Carolina to meet an associate in Granville County. Not finding him at Granville County, he was told that he may be at Orange Court House. At one of the stops between Granville and Orange courts, SAUNDERS learned that his associate was on the way to Pee Dee, South Carolina. KIMBROUGH confirmed this story, and said "that he himself was going to Pee Dee sometime soon". SAUNDERS entrusted KIMBROUGH with messages, and left to go back to Suffolk, Virginia. Today's Alamance County was the end of the line for SAUNDERS. He had experienced several bad days with the 18th century backcountry roads and the visitor was not impressed with KIMBROUGH's buildings, but remarked "that the food there was better than most". Other than the court minutes, SAUNDERS' brief journal provides the only glimpse of the Orange County court at the meeting on Back Creek. SAUNDERS recorded that after crossing the Eno River and "riding 15 Mile" his party got to Orange Court House where there was "Sundry people assembled and their appearance did not prejudice me much in their favour but I soon understood they were justices of this court we disapated our fears a little and they soon left us and we had pretty good entertainment, Mr KIMBROUGH keeping ordinary but the houses excessive bad being built of logs and them laid verry far from close, that our lodging room was verry airy and verry light notwithstanding we had never a window". Sources" North Carolina State Archives John Saunders Notebook Journal of a Journey to Pee Dee