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Child support order: Robert Burnside, Peggy Ringstaff

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

The court ordered Robert Burnside, charged as reputed father, to pay Peggy Ringstaff child support in installments.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
May 1808 term, 25 May 1808
People
Amounts
Twenty Seven pounds; Twelve pounds; five pounds
Other dates
annually
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 10/60

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 418
  • 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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