Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Thomas Hughs, Jno Ray
23 February 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered orphan Thomas Hughs bound to Jno Ray until age twenty-one to learn farming.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- February 1790 term, 23 February 1790
- People
- Thomas Hughs (child bound; orphan child; age thirteen years May next)
- Jno Ray (master)
- Other dates
- May next
- The court’s words
- “art of a Farmer”
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 256
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1790 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).
