Orange County Indexed
Child support order: Robert Simmons, Mary Whithead
31 August 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered Robert Simmons, identified as reputed father, to support Mary Whithead’s child through annual payments from birth.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- August 1798 term, 31 August 1798
- People
- Robert Simmons (named father)
- Mary Whithead (mother)
- Amounts
- twenty seven pounds; seven pounds; five pounds
Reading note: The order omitted the verb pay but specified support amounts and bond.
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 464
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 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).
