Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: Thomas Grissum, Elisha Braxton, John Grisham
February 1812 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
The court apprenticed Thomas Grissum to Elisha Braxton for instruction in farming.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- February 1812 term
- People
- Thomas Grissum (child bound; age 11 years 25th Dec’r last)
- Elisha Braxton (master)
- John Grisham (named father)
- Other dates
- 25th Dec’r last
Reading note: The child’s Grissum and father’s Grisham spellings differed.
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 8, page 326
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1812 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).
