Child support order: Ann Leach (?), Andrew Shepheard, Josias Dixon

Ann Leach swore that Andrew Shepheard fathered her child; four named men secured Shepheard.

Kind of business

Child support order

Court

July 1754 term

People

• Ann Leach (?) (mother)
• Andrew Shepheard (named father)
• Josias Dixon (surety; Esquire)
• John Gordon (surety; Esquire)
• Alexander Mebane (surety; Esquire)
• Wm. Miller (surety; Rev.)

Reading note: Shields adds this entry at the end of her abstracts with only its page in the original minutes, 20-41’, which falls among the July 1754 entries.

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

• Folio and page 20-41'
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 75
• Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
• Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30001, “County Court Minutes, 1752–1766” (State Archives film).