Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Wm. Edwards, Wm. Ansley
November 1785 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Wm. Edwards was bound to Wm. Ansley for literacy and arithmetic instruction, with a suit of clothes due at twenty-one.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- November 1785 term
- People
- Wm. Edwards (child bound; age 19 years 28 Jan. 1786)
- Wm. Ansley (master)
- Other dates
- 28 Jan. 1786; when he arrives at 21 years
- The court’s words
- “rule of three”
Reading note: Age date lies after the current November 1785 term; retained as written.
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 15-264
- 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 18 (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).
