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Child or servant bound: John Clark, John Craig, Reuben Smith

1 March 1816 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

John Clark’s apprenticeship to John Craig was cancelled with Craig’s consent; the child was bound to Reuben Smith to learn farming.

Kind of business
Child or servant bound
Court
February 1816 term, 1 March 1816
People
Elsewhere in the minutes
OCPQS 8/432: February 1813 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 9, page 153
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1816 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 30005, “County Court Minutes, 1815–1826” (State Archives film).
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