Orange County Indexed
Child support order
24 November 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered James Walker to pay Ann Horton £25 for child maintenance in installments; fine and payment notations followed.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- November 1789 term, 24 November 1789
- People
- Amounts
- Twenty five pounds; four pounds; four pounds & one crown; 25/; £15
- Other dates
- three months; nine months
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/315: November 1790 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/383: November 1791 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/424: May 1792 term →
Reading note: The payment annotation four pounds paid £15. 23d Fide[?] was unclear; the adults’ relationships to the unnamed child were unstated.
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 244
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
