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Orange County Indexed

Guardianship: Samuel Woods, Elizabeth Woods, John Nichols

August 1818 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

William Cain Junr resigned, and Samuel Woods became Elizabeth Woods’s guardian with security.

Kind of business
Guardianship
Court
August 1818 term
People
Amounts
£1250

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 558
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1818 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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