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Child support order: Andrew Gray, Jeany Robinson

25 May 1808 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court ordered Andrew Gray, charged as reputed father, to pay Jeany Robinson child support in installments.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
May 1808 term, 25 May 1808
People
Amounts
Twenty Seven pounds; forty Shillings; five pounds
Other dates
annually

Reading note: The sentence describing the child was 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 417
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1808 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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