Orange County Indexed
Child support order: Samuel Benton, Alice Murphey
31 August 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered Samuel Benton, identified as reputed father, to support Alice Murphey’s child through annual payments from birth.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- August 1798 term, 31 August 1798
- People
- Samuel Benton (named father)
- Alice Murphey (mother)
- Amounts
- Twenty Seven pounds; Seven pounds; five pounds
- The deed
- Deed Book 8, page 348 →
Samuel Benton to Alice Murphey (our deed record) - Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 6/334: August 1802 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 465
- 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).
