Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Samuel Gappin, Robert Holms
August 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered Samuel Gappin’s unnamed three-year-old orphan bound to Robert Holms until adulthood to learn coopering.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- August 1789 term
- People
- Samuel Gappin (deceased)
- Robert Holms (master)
- Amounts
- Three years
- The court’s words
- “art and mistery of a Cooper”
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 220
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
