 Carteret
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Carteret
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Orphans found in
Carteret County, NC Court Records
1725-1802Sept 1725
George Bell, age 16 this past June 14th (son of Andrew Bell and nephew of Joseph Bell and his wife Margaret) Joseph Bell request George be bound to him, court orders it.Josiah Bell, age 14 this past summer (son of Andrew Bell and nephew of Joseph Bell) Joseph Bell request George be bound to him, court orders it.
Dec 1730
John Dunnan, age 4 (William Owen petitions orphan be bound to him)Dec 1735
unnamed orphan boy, age 12 (Living at the Widow Lesters in White Oak River, ordered that Cary Godby bring orphan to Court. Dudley House appointed to care for orphan)Jun 1736
John Boggs, age 8, (Ann Johnson petitions orphan be bound to her, court orders it.)Sep 1737
Joseph Coffin, 7 years (son of John Coffin, deceased) (James Yates requests orphan bound to him, courts orders it.Mar 1737/38
Joseph French, age 12 next November (Hector Handcock requests orphan bound to him, court orders it)Jun 1744
David Wallis, no age given (son of Robert Wallis deceased) (Dispute in custody to either Berry Nelson or William Whitehurst, decision held until direction from David Bayley of Little River)Sep 1744
Elizabeth Bolton, age 12 weeks (daughter of Mary Bolton deceased) (brought before Court by Mary Ann Kersey, child sent to Parrish of St. John and Thomas Willoughby agreed with Vestry to keep the child for one year.)Sep 1751
John Finny, age 16 on the past 18th of Aug (Came into court and requested to be bound to George McKean)Sep 1755
Habakkuk Russell, no age given (Bound by court to George McKean)Russell Prescott, no age given (Bound by court to Willis Prescott)
Steve Conway, no age given (Bound by court to James Provo)
Nathaniel Wilder, no age given, but term of apprentiship is 4 years, 11 months (Apprenticed to Mr. Nethercott)
David Bell, no age given (son of Church Bell, Decd.) (Joseph requests guardianship, court orders it)
Betty and Sarah Gillet, no ages given (daughters of John Gillet, Jr; deceased) (Capt. John Backhouse requests guardianship, court orders it.)
Jun 1756
John Knight Small, no age given (son of Benjamin Small) (Requests Amos Small be appointed guardian)Elizabeth and Sarah Gillet, no ages given (Moses Houston ordered to be guardian)
Dec 1756
Richard Perry, no age given (Hannah Tyner appointed guardian till he reaches 12 years old)Mar 1757
George Geary, age 3 years (Bound to John Chapman)Nancy Geary, age 8 years (Bound to John Chapman)
Sep 1757
Richard Rustull, no age given (continued under guardianship of William Dennis)Dec 1757
Thomas Love, no age given (son of Thomas Love, deceased) (Bound to John Simpson, Sr.)Sarah Love, age 13 (daughter of Thomas Love, deceased) (Bound to John Simpson until)
Phamy Love, age 10 (daughter of Thomas Love, deceased) (Bound to Edward Shepard)
William Nethercott, age about 18 (Bound to Thomas Canaday)
David Styring (Styron), age 13 on Jan 19th next (Bound to Joseph Davis)
Thomas Weeks, age 10 years (Bound to Capt. Reuben Parker)
John Weeks, age 14 years last August (Bound to Thomas Bell)
John Lovett, no age given (Bound to Capt. Stephen Kirtland)
James Johnston, no age given (Bound to John Shackleford)
Robert Sinclare, age 15 years (Bound to George McKean)
Virtue James, age 13 years (Bound to George Bell)
John Kersey, age 16 years (Bound to George Bell)
Sarah Lovett, under age 18 (Ambrose Jones appointed guardian)
Caleb Maryland, age 11 years (Bound to Reuben Parker)
Sept 1758
Robert Sinclare, age 13 years (was bound to Geo. McKean, decd. Now chooses George Brin Harris as guardian.Jun 1759
Seletha Osteen, no age given (Matthew Moore requests guardianship, court orders it)William Feltney, age 6 years (Bound to Stephen Kirtland)
Mar 1761
Thomas Love, age 16 years (Bound to David James)Hannah Lovett, no age given (daughter of John Lovett) (Chose Andrew Bell as her guardian)
Jun 1761
George Bell, no age given (son of George Bell, deceased) (Court orders Ryland Bell pay Samuel Williston 6 pounds a year for two years keeping of George Bell)Aug 1761
Nathaniel Gibbs, no age given (son of Watterman Gibbs, deceased and his widow Mary) (Mary Gibbs requests guardianship)Nov 1761
Benjamin Webster, no age given (son of John Webster, deceased; and grandson of John Harper) (Court Appointes Samuel Noble guardian)Feb 1762
William Royal, no age given (Silvanus Dixon requests orphan bound to him, court orders it)May 1762
Edmond Culley, age 6 years (Rolins Williams requests orphan bound to him, court orders it)Abner Bell, no age given (son of George Bell, deceased) (Court orders Joseph Bell to keep or bind out orphan)
Aug 1762
Abner Bell, age 14 (Caleb Bell requests guardianship, court orders it.)Thomas Weeks, age 14 years, (son of Jonas Weeks, deceased) (Requests to bound to Robert Read)
Aug 1763
John Lovett, no age given, (son of John Lovett, deceased)John McKean, no age given (son of George McKean, deceased)
Nov 1763
John Lovett, age 14 years (son of John Lovett, deceased. Was in care of Joseph Bell, Jr. on motion orphan bound Joseph Bell and summons requests William Borden to give any cause why orphan should not be so bound. Orphan also requests that Joseph Bell be guardian).May 1764
William Winns, age 16 years (son of James Winns, deceased, late of Craven County. requests Jesse Jones be appointed his guardian, court orders it).Sep 1766
William Weaver, age 16 years, born in Bristol, England (Bound to Robert Williams in Aug 1796 and now requests to be bound to Joseph Morse, Sr.)Mar 1768
Thomas Dudley, no age given (son of Thomas Dudley, decd. Chose Abraham Dudley as guardian)Dec 1768
John McKean, no age given (son of George McKean, decd. Newell Bell guardian)Jun 1769
Frederick Guthry, no age given (son of Lucy Guthry)Sep 1769
Huel Equils, age 7 years the past March (son of Mary Equils. David Chadwick guardian))Mar 1770
Joseph Simpson, age 13 next November (son of John Simpson, deceased. Bound to Joseph Morse, Sr.)Frederick Guthry, age 18 years (Request to be bound to George Fulford)
Joshua Upton, age 17 years (Bound to Peter Noe)
Jonathan Hudson, age 14 years (Bound to Isaac Weeks)
Mar 1771
Thomas Owen, age 9 years (John Howard requests and approved as guardian)Ann Brumly, age 12 years (Bound to Thomas Britton and his wife Susannah)
Thomas White, no age given (son of Thomas White, decd.)
Dec 1771
John Mosely and Nancy Mosely, not ages given (children of William Mosely, deceased) (currently in care of Capt. William Dennis who is ordered to bring them to court to choose their guardians)Mar 1772
Elizabeth Kay, no age given (daughter of James Kay, deceased. Samuel Noble brought her to court to guardian, Samuel Noble chosen)Thomas Dudley and Elizabeth Dudley, no ages given (children of Elijah Dudley, deceased. Chose his 'father-in-law' Joseph Collins as guardian)
Vasty Owen, age 11 years past October (daughter of William Owen, deceased. Brought into court by her father-in-law James Hutchings and bound to Hap Mezzik)
Jesse Riggs, age 16 years (son of Benjamin Riggs, deceased. John Fuller requests and is appointed guardian)
Abraham Barkley, no age given (son of Aylworth Barkley, deceased. Amos Johnson named guardian)
John Mosely and Nancy Mosely, no age given (choose William Dennis and William Shepard Foster as guardians)
June 1774
Elizabeth Ann Stafford, no age given (Sarah Durfe requests and appointed guardian)Sep 1774
Jonathan Kay, no age given (son of James Kay, deceased. John Lovett requests and appointed guardian)John Houston, no age given (son of William Houston, deceased. John Lovett requests and appointed guardian)
Thomas Dudley and Elizabeth Dudley, no ages given (children of Elijah Dudley, decd. Abraham Dudley appointed guardian)
Dec 1774
Francis Garner, no age given (child of Samuel Garner. Chose Thomas Canaday as guardian)Mar 1775
Jacob Pacquinet, no age give (son of Michael Pacquinet. Chose Lewis Welch as guardian)Louise Owens, no age given (daughter of William Owens, deceased. Removed from guardianship of Hopkins Mezick and James Hutchinson, her father in law appointed guardian)
George Bell, age 13 years and 6 months (son of George Bell, deceased. Joseph Bell requests and appointed guardian)
Elizabeth and Rebecca Pacquinet, no ages given (daughters of Michael Pacquinet, deceased. Lewis Welch appointed guardian)
Ezekiel Hall, no age given (son of Joseph Hall, deceased. John Sanders appointed guardian)
Jun 1775
Solomon Ocleskott, age about 2 years (son of Nancy Ocleskott who requests he be bound to Caleb Longest, court so orders)Sep 1775
Stephen Quinner, age 15 years (son of William Quinner. James Bell requests and appointed guardian)Rachel Pennuel, no age given (Thomas Britton requests and appointed guardian)
Dec 1775
Solomon Chadwick, age 14 years (son of David Chadwick. Isaiah Chadwick requests and appointed guardian)Bethuel Equils, no age given (John Morse and Mary Hampton requests boy bound to John Morse, so ordered by court)
Mar 1777
Elizabeth Dudley, no age given (daughter of Elijah Dudley, decd. Chose William Egerton as guardian)Fanny Dudley, no age given (daughter of Jacob Dudley, deceased. Houston Roberts appointed guardian)
Sep 1777
Joseph Kay, no age given (son of James Kay, deceased and Mary Killiam. Jonathan Kay appointed guardian)Thanly Kay, no age given (child of James Kay, deceased. Eli West appointed guardian).
Dec 1777
John Penuell, no age given (In care of Thomas Britton for past two years)Dec 1779
Isabella Harland, no age given (William Thompson guardian)Abigail Turner, age 10 years (Joshua Potter requested and appointed guardian)
Thadeus , no age given (John Melson request to be guardian)
Mar 1780
Alexander Foreman, age 14 years (William Foreman requested to be guardian, orphan chose said Wm. Foreman)Mar 1781
Joshua Longest, age 14 years on Jan 20 preceding (Hew Locker requests and appointed guardian)Sep 1781
Robert Welch, age 11 years 3 months last Sept. (James Pacquinet requested and appoined guardian)Mar 1782
James Longest, no age given (Caleb Longest requests and appointed guardian)Leonard Mann, no age given (son of William Mann, deceased. Thomas Hardesty requests and appointed guardian)
Theophilus Mann, no age given (son of William Mann, deceased. Thomas Hardesty requests and appointed guardian)
Elizabeth Mann, no age given (daughter of William Mann, deceased. Thomas Hardesty requests and appointed guardian)
Sarah Mann, no age given (daughter of William Mann, deceased. Thomas Hardesty requests and appointed guardian)
Dec 1782
Henry Newby, no age given (Benjamin Stanton requests and appointed guardian)Sep 1783
Owen Bell, no age given (son of Solomon Bell, deceased and son-in-law of Jesse Thomas who requests and appointed guardian).Ruth Bell, no age given (daughter of Solomon Bell, deceased and daugher-in-law of Jesse Thomas who requests and appointed guardian)
Mar 1784
Edward Smith, age 14 years (bound to Hancock Nichols)Jun 1784
Rebecca Piner, age 7 years (Bound to William Harris and his wife Sarah)Moses Prescott, no age given (Bound to Western Williams)
Ezekial Sanders, age 15 years July 1st (Bound to William Sanders)
Aaron Prescott, age 14 years next February (Bound to Aaron Prescott, Sr.)
Jubel Weeks, no age given (Chose Cornelius Weeks his guardian)
Abigail Wallis, no age given (daughter of Valentine Wallis. Chose Armsted Hatsell guardian)
Sep 1784
Asa Wallis, no age given (son of Valentine Wallis. Chose Reuben Wallis, Asa's brother, as guardian)Mar 1785
Nirah Huggins, age 14 years (Boy bound to Eden Bell)Mar 1785
Jesse Hubbard, age 8 years (William Davis requested and appointed guardian)Sep 1785
Andrew Long, no age given (son of John Long, deceased. Boy was bound to Robert W. Bagwell, now decd. William Armsted requests and appointed new guardian)Jun 1786
John Hancock, no age given (son of Benjamin Hancock, deceased and his widow Sarah who requests and appointed guardian)James Hancock, no age given (son of Benjamin Hancock, deceased and his widow Sarah who requests and appointed guardian)
Alice Hancock, no age given (daughter of Benjamin Hancock, deceased and his widow Sarah who requests and appointed guardian)
Jun 1787
Joseph Stanton, age 12 years (Owen Stanton requests and appointed guardian)Jesse Price, age 8 years (Asa Bishop requests and appointed guardian)
Sep 1787
Sarah Bell, no age given (daughter of David Bell, deceased. Joseph Bell made guardian)Betsy Bell, no age given (daughter of David Bell, deceased. Joseph Bell made guardian)
David Bell, no age given (son of David Bell, deceased. Joseph Bell made guardian)
Dec 1787
Thomas Godfrey, age 15 years (Thomas Harris requests and appointed guardian)Sep 1788
Charles Edwards, age 12 years (Levi West requests and appointed guardian)Mar 1789
Daniel Rumley, age 13 years (Thomas Russell requests and appointed guardian)Jesse Hubbard, age 13 years (Alexander Foreman requests and appointed guardian)
Jun 1789
Patty Ives, no age given (George Bell, Jr. requests and appointed guardian)William Gilliken, age 9 years (Thomas Gillikin requests and appointed guardian)
Dec 1789
unnamed Gilliken, age 11 years (daughter of Alpheus Gilliken. Thomas Gillikin requests and appointed guardian)George Morse, no age given (son of Joseph Morse, deceased. Nehemiah Harris appointed guardian)
Susanna Morse, no age given (daughter of Joseph Morse, deceased. Nehemiah Harris appointed guardian)
Hannah Morse, no age given (daughter of Joseph Morse, deceased. Nehemiah Harris appointed guardian)
Jesse Hubbard, no age given (Jonathan Hellen requests and appointed guardian)
Thomas Smith, age 14 years (Reuben Wallis requests and appointed guardian)
Sep 1790
Sarah Smith, no age given (daughter of Thomas Smith, deceased. Phillip Collins appointed guardian)Mar 1791
Archie Guthrie, age 13 years (Frederick Gibble requested and appointed guardian)Willis Smith, age 9 years (John A. Lukeman requested and appointed guardian)
Feb 1792
William Salmons, age 16 years (Joseph Cully requested and appointed guardian)John Salmons, age 18 years (Thomas Wilson requested and appointed guardian)
unnamed Smith, no age given (child of William Smith who died in the Service of this Country. Levina Smith guardian)
May 1793
John Benthall, no age given (Richard Canaday brings to court and orphan chooses said Canaday as guardian)Sarah Smith, no age given (daughter of Thomas Smith) (David Russell chosen as guardian)
Nov 1793
Levi Bell, age 12 years last April (Bound to Elijah Canaday)Hugh Woolard, no age given (
Martin Willis, no age given
William Fisher, no age given
Esther Fisher, no age given
May 1794
Newell Bell, age 12 years (son of Newell Bell, deceased)William Freshwater, no age given (son of William Freshwater, deceased) (Requests John Melson as Guardian instead of Benjamin Weeks)
Feb 1795
David Dudley, age 9 years (Bound to Arthur Merril)Nov 1795
William Hendrixon, age 9 years last Feb 14th (son of John Hendrixon) (Bound to Samuel Easton)Kitturah Foot, no age given (daughter of John Doe)
Chloe Foot, no age given (daugher of John Doe)
Mary Foot, no age given (daughter of John Doe)
David Foot, no age given (son of John Doe)
May 1796
Elijah Harris, no age given (Bound to Jesse Harris)Aug 1796
Noah Sherwood, no age given (son of Amy Philips) (Frederick Gibble requests and appointed guardian)John Land, born Feb 9th 1786 (Joshua Scott requested and appointed guardian)
Alice Land, born Apr 26th 1782 (Joshua Scott requested and appointed guardian)
Nov 1796
David Bell, no age given (son of David Bell, deceased) (Thomas Dudley appointed guardian)Sally Bell, no age given (daughter of David Bell, deceased) (Thomas Dudley appointed guardian)
Betsy Bell, no age given (daughter of David Bell, deceased) (Thomas Dudley appointed guardian)
May 1797
Elizabeth Yeomans, age 8 years (Bound to Daniel Willis)Jonathan Green, no age given (Armsted Hatsell appointed guardian)
William Yates, no age given (son of Basel Yates, deceased) (George Bell appointed guardian)
Aug 1797
Mary Williams, no age given (Mary Taylor, wife of Joshua Taylor, requests and appointed guardian)Nov 1797
Catherine Brown, no age given (Bound to Hannah Russell)Feb 1798
Josiah Williston, no age given (son of George Williston, deceased. Stephen Fulford, spouse of childs mother, requests and appointed guardian)David Williston, no age given (son of George Williston, deceased. Stephen Fulford, spouse of childs mother, requests and appointed guardian)
Gabriel Williston, no age given (son of George Williston, deceased. Stephen Fulford, spouse of childs mother, requests and appointed guardian)
Sarah Pugh, no age given (Bound to Susannah Fuller, wife of Wilson Fuller)
Sarah Smith, no age given (daughter of Thomas Smith) (David Russell guardian)
May 1798
Nancy Linch, no age given (Bound to Sarah Hancock)Aug 1799
William Pew, age 8 years on Dec 11th (Bound to Thomas Duncan)Nov 1799
Vincent Murphy, age 12 years on Mar 9th (Bound to Jesse Canon)Feb 1800
Alexander Foreman, no age given (Rustull Foreman appointed guardian)May 1800
Robert Duke, age 9 years (Bound to George Howard, Sr.)Catherine Russell, no age given (Habakkuk Russell appointed guardian)
William Sanders, no age given (Price Penuel appointed guardian)
Sarah Morse, no age given (Bound to Mary Welch)
Aug 1800
William Cheney, no age given (Benjamin Cheney appointed guardian)Feb 1801
Samuel Sanders, no age given (rendered unfit for hard labor due to wound) (Price Penuel guardian requests to be discharged from said guardianship. Penuel to keep boy until another master found).Steven Williams, age 8 years last Apr. (Bound to John Rustull, Jr.)
Mary Hellen, no age given (daughter of Isaac Hellen) (Brian Hellen requests and appointed guardian)
David Hellen, no age given (son of Isaac Hellen) (Brian Hellen requests and appointed guardian)
John Hellen, age 14 last Dec. (son of Isaac Hellen) (Brian Hellen requests and appointed guardian)
May 1801
Rebecca Whaland, age 9 years last Feb (Bound to Rebecca Benthall, wife of John Benthall)Jonathan Hibbs, no age given (Chose William Temple as his guardian)
Lydia Hatsel, no age given (John McKean appointed guardian)
William Pratt, age 16 years (Bound to William Hill)
Steven Bess, age 11 years (Bound to Aaron Prescoat)
Absalom Hibbs, no age given (son of Elizabeth Hibbs) (David Russell appointed guardian)
Wilkins Hibbs, no age given (son of Elizabeth Hibbs) (David Russell appointed guardian)
Aaron McKinny, age 17 years (Bound to Abraham Sikes)
Aug 1801
Mary Fielding, age 13 last Feb (Bound to Robert Whitehurst and his wife Sarah)Thomas Morton, age 15 years (Bound to John Ferguson)
Thomas Hibbs, no age given (John Oglesbee appointed guardian)
Hepsey Green, no age given (Requests Jabez Weeks as guardian)
Sarah Sanders, no age given (daughter of Samuel Sanders, decd. Rhodes Weeks appointed guardian)
John Hatsel and Willis Hatsel, no ages given (sons of Willis Hatsel, decd. James Brees appoined guardian)
Elizabeth Herbert, Sarah Herbert, and William Herbert, no ages given (children of Hillary Herbert, decd. John Roberts appointed guardian)
Nov 1801
Jacob Gaskill, no age given (son of Benjamin Gaskill, decd. John Mayo appointed guardian)Delaney Williams, no age given (Thomas Wahab requests and appointed guardian)
Andrew Duke Prescoat, no age given (Lydia Prescoat, mother, appointed guardian)
Daniel Mckinney, no age given (bound to John Lacy)
Solomon Prescott, no age given (Willoughby Prescott appointed guardian)
Alexander Foreman, no age given (son of Alexander Foreman, decd. Bound to Joseph Robinson)
Feb 1802
John Dennis, no age given (son of John Dennis, decd. Nathan Adams guardian)John Fulford, Polly Fulford, Abbey Fulford, and William Martin Fulford, no age given (children of John Fulford, decd. Abigail Fulford guardian)
James Brees, no age given (son of William Brees, decd. Chose George Read as guardian)
May 1802
Samuel Cully, no age given (son of Thomas Cully, decd. Lucretia Cully appointed guardian)Betsey Hatsell, no age given (James Brees apppointed guardian)
Sally Hatsell, no age gien (James Brees appointed guardian)
Susanna Leecraft, Sally Leecraft, Nancy Leecraft, Benjamin Leecraft, and Polly Leecraft, no ages given (children of Benjamin Leecraft, decd. Susanna Leecraft appointed guardian)
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