Orange County Indexed

Forest marriages

3 marriages in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.

Abraham Fitch and Elizabeth Forest

Marriage bond, 8 March 1792

Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60004, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Con–Gw”.
The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 149 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).

Marriage bond, 8 October 1799

Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60004, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Con–Gw”.
The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 150 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).

Marriage bond, 26 July 1862

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 150 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 Forest record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more

Search beyond these records

Forest 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 Forest there)
Forest in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)