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Orange County Indexed

Guardianship: Wm Farmer, Wm Norwood, Lewis Jones Sr

25 August 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

On Wm Farmer’s motion through Wm Norwood, the court summoned Lewis Jones Sr concerning unsettled guardianship accounts and renewed security for Wm Wilson’s orphans.

Kind of business
Guardianship
Court
August 1796 term, 25 August 1796
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/199: May 1789 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/181: February 1797 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 4/537: February 1794 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/301: August 1797 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/307: August 1797 term →

Reading note: One ward’s given name was partly unreadable. One or more personal names or identifying annotations were uncertain in the transcription.

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 123
  • 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).
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