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Estate account: David White, Stephen Baldridge, Malcom Baldridge

1 September 1804 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court authorized guardians David White and Stephen Baldridge to sell their wards’ inherited land to discharge Malcom Baldridge’s and James Baldridge’s debts.

Kind of business
Estate account
Court
August 1804 term, 1 September 1804
People
Places
Mill Tract; Little River; Lees tract; North fork of Little River
Amounts
two Hundred acres; One Hundred and Seventy five Acres; Eighty Acres; two Hundred and fifty acres
Other dates
Six months
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 6/451: August 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 595
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1804 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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