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Child support order: Abram Whittaker, Salley Rhodes

26 February 1801 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court ordered Abram Whittaker to make annual payments supporting Salley Rhodes’s child from the stated birth date.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
February 1801 term, 26 February 1801
People
Amounts
Twenty seven pounds six
Other dates
25th Sep 1799
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/254: November 1801 term →

Reading note: The amount included six without a clear unit; no correction inferred.

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 146
  • 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).
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