Orange County Indexed
Child support order: Richard Cates, Mary Hastings
31 May 1799 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered Richard Cates, described as reputed father, to support Mary Hastings’s child in installments; later receipts recorded payments.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- May 1799 term, 31 May 1799
- People
- Richard Cates (named father)
- Mary Hastings (mother)
- S Benton
- Absalom? Hastings
- Amounts
- Twenty seven pounds; Seven pounds; 40/; five pounds
- Other dates
- 10th Sept 99
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 6/61: August 1800 term →
Reading note: Richard Cate/Rich’d Cates and Mary Haisting were variant spellings; receipt initials SB corresponded to S Benton. Absalom? was uncertain. A personal name or identifying annotation was 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 567
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1799 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).
