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Child or servant bound: Benjamin Underwood, Allen Jones

26 February 1807 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Benjamin Underwood was apprenticed to Allen Jones for shop joinery, writing and arithmetic through the rule of three.

Kind of business
Child or servant bound
Court
February 1807 term, 26 February 1807
People
Other dates
8th Jan’y last

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 245
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1807 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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