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Child support order: Richard Morris, Henry Morris

February 1778 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Richard Morris was ordered to pay eight pounds annually for five years to maintain an unnamed child and offered Henry Morris as security.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
February 1778 term
People
Amounts
8 pounds per annum for 5 years

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 16-32
  • Published abstract: Alma Cheek Redden, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Orange County, N.C., 1777–1788, page 13 (Orange County Public Library, NC 929.375 HAU)
  • 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 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
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