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Orange County Indexed

Guardianship: James Whitsides, Empson Bird

August 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Guardian Empson Bird was appointed or chosen for the Whitsides orphan upon an eighty-pound bond.

Kind of business
Guardianship
Court
August 1790 term
People
Amounts
eighty pounds
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/164: November 1788 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/173: November 1788 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 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).
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