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Orange County Indexed

Bond: Wm. McCauley

Will Book A, page 342 · dated 3 March 1785

Wm. McCauley and John Steel Sr. bonded Betsy Cook as a spinning apprentice.

Kind of paper
Bond
Made by
Wm. McCauley, Chairman of Orange County, N.C. County Court
Dated
3 March 1785
Witness
J. Benton (C.C.)
Also named
BETSY COOK (apprenticed to learn the art of a spinster)

Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.

Where to find it

  • Orange County Will Book A, page 342.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
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