Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: James McDade, John Shy
26 May 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered orphan James McDade bound to John Shy until adulthood to learn hatmaking.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- May 1789 term, 26 May 1789
- People
- James McDade (child bound; orphan child; age Thirteen years)
- John Shy (master)
- The court’s words
- “art & mistery of a Hatter”
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/245: November 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 204
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
