Orange County Indexed
Child support order: John Cook, Mary Green
November 1793 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
John Cook was ordered to pay Mary Green childbirth expenses and continuing child support, reduced proportionally if the child died.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- November 1793 term
- People
- John Cook (named father)
- Mary Green (mother)
- Amounts
- five pounds; four pounds
- Other dates
- 6th day of August 1794; sixth day of August 1794; 6th day of August 1795
Reading note: The November 1793 term entry assigned the child’s birth and payment dates to 1794–1795; no correction was inferred.
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 514
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1793 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).
