Orange County Indexed
Child support order: Robert Ray, Elizabeth James
February 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered reputed father Robert Ray to pay Elizabeth James £20 in annual child-support installments and post parish-indemnity security.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- February 1790 term
- People
- Robert Ray (named father)
- Elizabeth James (mother)
- Amounts
- £20; four pounds
- Other dates
- May 1791; May 1792; May 1793; May 1794
Reading note: Five payments were specified but only four years listed; Robert Ray was later Ro Ray.
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 273
- 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).
