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Child or servant bound: Stephen Williams, James Carry

25 February 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court ordered five-year-old Stephen Williams bound to James Carry until age twenty-one.

Kind of business
Child or servant bound
Court
February 1789 term, 25 February 1789
People
Amounts
Twenty one

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 189
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1789 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).
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