Orange County Indexed
Child support order: John Hawkins, Catherine Charles
25 August 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered reputed father John Hawkins to support Catherine Charles’s child; a later note recorded funds paid through S Benton to Michael Charles.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- August 1796 term, 25 August 1796
- People
- John Hawkins (named father)
- Catherine Charles (mother)
- Capt Charles
- S Benton
- Michael Charles
- Amounts
- six pounds; £12
- Other dates
- 24th January of the present year; 25th May 1797
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 5/459: August 1798 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 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).
