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Child support order: Abram Whittaker Jr, Sarah Rhodes

November 1801 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court ordered Abram Whittaker Jr, described as reputed father, to pay Sarah Rhodes child support through immediate and annual installments.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
November 1801 term
People
Amounts
Twenty Severn pounds; Seven pounds; five pounds
Other dates
25th day of Sep’r 1801
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/146: February 1801 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 254
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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