Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Polley Forrister Alias Chisenhall, Nancy Forrester, Lazarus Cates
August 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court apprenticed Polley Forrister Alias Chisenhall, Nancy Forrester’s daughter, to Lazarus Cates until age eighteen.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- August 1796 term
- People
- Polley Forrister Alias Chisenhall (child bound; age six years or thereabout)
- Nancy Forrester (mother)
- Lazarus Cates (master)
Reading note: Some age-related wording was unreadable; no trade was stated.
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 111
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
