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Child or servant bound: Joanne Dunn, John Ma___?, Joseph Dunn

24 August 1784 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court apprenticed Joanne Dunn to John Ma___? until age 18.

Kind of business
Child or servant bound
Court
August 1784 term, 24 August 1784
People
Other dates
8th March last

Reading note: The master’s surname was incomplete and questioned.

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 46-209½
  • 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 32 (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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