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Child or servant bound: Ebenezer Duwit, Wm Cooper

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

The court rescinded Ebenezer Duwit’s earlier binding and ordered him bound to Wm Cooper until adulthood to learn weaving.

Kind of business
Child or servant bound
Court
August 1789 term, 26 August 1789
People
Other dates
November Term 1787
The court’s words
“art of a Weaver”
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/80: November 1787 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 226
  • 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).
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