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Child support order: John Duke, Leah Lingo

25 August 1813 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Duke was ordered to pay Leah Lingo child support as the reputed father.

Kind of business
Child support order
Court
August 1813 term, 25 August 1813
People
Amounts
Twenty Seven pounds; Seventeen pounds; five pounds
Other dates
immediately; Sep’r next; annually
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 8/124: November 1810 term →

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 492
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1813 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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