Orange County Indexed
Shears marriages
1 marriage in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.
John Cate and Polly Shears
Marriage bond, 14 August 1820
- Bond dated
- 14 August 1820
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book C, page 249, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60003, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Bra–Com”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 74 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 Shears record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
- Search beyond these records
- Shears 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 Shears there)
- Shears in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
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