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Child support order: Henry Berry, Elisabeth Pinkerton, Samuel Turrentine

2 December 1808 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Henry Berry was ordered to reimburse Anne Jordan and sheriff Samuel Turrentine for maintaining Robert Alves Pinkerton before and during custody.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
November 1808 term, 2 December 1808
People
Amounts
fifteen pounds; five pounds
Other dates
three months

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 481
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 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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