Orange County Indexed
Child support order: Elizabeth Wells, Thomas Crayton
26 February 1801 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
On Elizabeth Wells’s motion, the court ordered Thomas Crayton’s arrest in Chatham County to answer a paternity charge.
- Kind of business
- Child support order
- Court
- February 1801 term, 26 February 1801
- People
- Elizabeth Wells (petitioner)
- Thomas Crayton (defendant)
- Places
- Chatham Co; Orange County
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 6/178: May 1801 term →
Reading note: Some wording concerning prior process was unreadable.
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 144
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1801 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).
