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Orange County Indexed

Child or servant bound: Rosannah Cate, Barnabas Cate, Joseph Cate

November 1807 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court apprenticed Rosannah Cate to Barnabas Cate for instruction in farming or spinning.

Kind of business
Child or servant bound
Court
November 1807 term
People

Reading note: The collective order specified farming and spinning without assigning an individual trade; some name or date readings were incomplete.

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 352
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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