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Child support order: Thomas Nelson, Patty Williams

May 1794 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Thomas Nelson was ordered to return Patty Williams’s child, pay annual support and secure the county against maintenance costs.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
May 1794 term
People
Amounts
five pounds
Other dates
five years
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/561: 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 575
  • 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).
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