Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Abby Shiken, David English
1 March 1791 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered five-year-old orphan Abby Shiken bound to David English under an ambiguously stated duration.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- February 1791 term, 1 March 1791
- People
- Abby Shiken (child bound; orphan child; age 5 years)
- David English (master)
- The court’s words
- “age of spinster”
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 326
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1791 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).
