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Child or servant bound: Jno Ray

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

The court ordered five-year-old Jno Ray bound to an adult also named Jno Ray until age twenty-one.

Kind of business
Child or servant bound
Court
February 1789 term, 26 February 1789
People
Amounts
Twenty one years
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/327: February 1791 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 197
  • 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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