Orange County Indexed
Child support order: Reuben Boroughs, Hannah Blackwood
29 November 1799 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court ordered Reuben Boroughs to make arrears and continuing support payments for Hannah Blackwood’s child, crediting payments through William Blackwood.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- November 1799 term, 29 November 1799
- People
- Reuben Boroughs (named father)
- Hannah Blackwood (mother)
- William Blackwood
- Amounts
- £2.10/; £4.10/; five pounds; £5
- Other dates
- tenth day of August 1797; tenth day of August 1798; 10th Aug’t 1799; 10th Aug’t next; 19th Aug’t 1798
Reading note: Support periods and repeated annual-payment wording were inconsistent; amounts and dates retained as written.
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 637
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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).
