Orange County Indexed
Cotten marriages
1 marriage in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.
Wright Ferrington and Wescot Cotten
Marriage bond, 1 August 1865
- Bond dated
- 1 August 1865
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book D-F, page 728, at the Register of Deeds
- Other readings
- Ingmire, Holcomb and USGenWeb read the bride as Wescot Cotton
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60004, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Con–Gw” (the name falls near a reel’s first or last bond; check both).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60001, “Marriage Record, 1851–66, and Marriage Registers, 1867–72”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 148 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
- Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
- In all the records
- Every Cotten record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
- Search beyond these records
- Cotten in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Cotten there)
- Cotten in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
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