Orange County Indexed
Child support order: Wm Duffy, Tho Watts, Mary McDade
February 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Wm Duffy’s motion, the court ordered reputed father Tho Watts to support Mary McDade’s child through annual payments and provide bond.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- February 1798 term
- People
- Wm Duffy (attorney)
- Tho Watts (named father)
- Mary McDade (mother)
- Amounts
- twenty seven pounds; Seven pounds; five pounds
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 359
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1798 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).
