Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Ebenezer Dewit, John Torrentine
November 1787 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered orphan Ebenezer Dewit bound to John Torrentine for five years from the month’s first day to learn blacksmithing.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- November 1787 term
- People
- Ebenezer Dewit (child bound; orphan child)
- John Torrentine (master)
- Amounts
- Five Years
- Other dates
- first day of this Instant
- The court’s words
- “art and mistery of a Black Smith”
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/224: August 1789 term →
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 82
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
