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Child support order: Jennings Rickets, Margret Ray, J Taylor

29 May 1806 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

David Mebane paid Jennings Rickets’s childbearing-related fine concerning Margret Ray; a later receipt recorded repayment to Mebane.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
May 1806 term, 29 May 1806
People
Amounts
25/
Other dates
21st May 1809

Reading note: A repayment annotation dated 1809 appeared within the 1806 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 7, page 156
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1806 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 30004, “County Court Minutes, 1805–1814” (State Archives film).
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