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Child support order: Rich’d Cate, Mary Hastings

28 August 1800 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court ordered notice requiring Rich’d Cate to explain why execution should not issue for overdue support of Mary Hastings’s child.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
August 1800 term, 28 August 1800
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 5/567: May 1799 term →
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/417: May 1803 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 6, page 61
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1800 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).
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