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Guardianship: Wm Courtney, James Christmas, Rob’t Scoby

26 May 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Wm Courtney and James Christmas were appointed to examine Rob’t Scoby’s guardianship accounts for Sol and Stephen Debow, Jno Debow’s orphans.

Kind of business
Guardianship
Court
May 1796 term, 26 May 1796
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/143: November 1796 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/544: May 1799 term →
The deed
Deed Book 7, page 435 →
Robert Scoby & Lucy Scoby to Solomon Debow & Stephen Debow by guardian (our deed record)

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 5, page 95
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1796 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 30003, “County Court Minutes, 1795–1804” (State Archives film).
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