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Child support order

24 November 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

James Walker paid the clerk four pounds for Anne Horton under the earlier order; a later receipt recorded disbursement to her.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
November 1790 term, 24 November 1790
People
Amounts
four pounds
Other dates
29th Nov 1791
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/242: November 1789 term →

Reading note: The disbursement annotation postdated the November 1790 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 317
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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