Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Simon Beckam, John Thompson, Jacob Deblin
August 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Following former master Deblin’s death, the court bound orphan Simon Beckam to John Thompson to learn coopering.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- August 1790 term
- People
- Simon Beckam (child bound; orphan child; age twelve years the May preceeding)
- John Thompson (master)
- Jacob Deblin (deceased)
- Other dates
- last Nov’r Term; May preceeding
- The court’s words
- “art & mistery of Cooper”
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/241: November 1789 term →
Reading note: The stated age applied to the earlier binding; the record differed in names and month from the referenced prior order.
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 296
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
