Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Benjamin Nicholson, Wm Holloday
May 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered orphan Benjamin Nicholson bound to Wm Holloday until adulthood to learn blacksmithing.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- May 1787 term
- People
- Benjamin Nicholson (child bound; Orphan child; age 13 years the 19th Inst.)
- Wm Holloday (master)
- Other dates
- 19th Inst.
- The court’s words
- “B-Smith trade”
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
- Minute book 4, page 22
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1787 term
- 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).
