Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Hugh Philips, James Philips, Geo Madden
May 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered sixteen-year-old Hugh Philips bound to Geo Madden until age twenty-one to learn blacksmithing.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- May 1790 term
- People
- Hugh Philips (child bound; son of James Philips; age 16 years)
- James Philips (named father)
- Geo Madden (master)
- The court’s words
- “art & mistery of a black Smith”
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/479: August 1793 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 275
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
