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Orange County Indexed

Child or servant bound: Wm. Clifton, William Bryan

27 February 1786 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court apprenticed Wm. Clifton to William Bryan until age 21.

Kind of business
Child or servant bound
Court
February 1786 term, 27 February 1786
People

Reading note: Master was to provide nine months schooling and other legal requirements.

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 18-268
  • 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 20 (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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