Orange County Indexed
Child support order: Patty Williams, Thomas Nelson, Samuel Benton
May 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Patty Williams’s petition, Thomas Nelson was ordered to produce her child so the court could examine his detention of the child.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- May 1794 term
- People
- Patty Williams (mother)
- Thomas Nelson (named father; the reputed father)
- Samuel Benton (attorney)
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/561: May 1794 term →
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/575: May 1794 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 566
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1794 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).
