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Guardianship: Shadrick Forrister, Abraham Whittaker, Richard Rhodes

26 August 1791 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Following a jury’s incapacity finding, Shadrick Forrister, Abraham Whittaker and Richard Rhodes became James Heflin’s guardians, with approved sureties.

Kind of business
Guardianship
Court
August 1791 term, 26 August 1791
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/367: August 1791 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/398: February 1792 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 371
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
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