Child support order: Jean Latta, William McCabe, Jesse Benton

After Jean Latta’s sworn paternity allegation, the court ordered William McCabe to fund child maintenance, ending if mother or child died before the child turned six.

Kind of business

Child support order

Court

May 1789 term, 28 May 1789

People

• Jean Latta (mother)
• William McCabe (named father)
• Jesse Benton (attorney)

Amounts

Forty eight pounds; Eight pounds; ten pounds; £48

Other dates

23d day of April 1789; half yearly; six years

Elsewhere in the minutes

OCPQS 4/207: May 1789 term →

Reading note: The £48 total, £8 annual rate and £10 half-year payment conflicted. Jean Latta was later Jean Lattay; the female child was unnamed.

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 211
• 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).