Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Ludwick Dronebury, Adam Smith
24 May 1791 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court apprenticed Ludwick Dronebury, aged twelve, to Adam Smith for farming instruction until age twenty-one.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- May 1791 term, 24 May 1791
- People
- Ludwick Dronebury (child bound; an orphan child; age 12 years the 10th day of January 1791)
- Adam Smith (master)
- Other dates
- 10th day of January 1791
- The court’s words
- “to learn the art and mistery of a Farmer”
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 339
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 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).
