Orange County Indexed
The Blair surname
The Blair name in Orange County Indexed: 18 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1772 to 1816
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1772–1814
- Tax lists 1779–1790
- Marriages 1792
- Court minutes 1798–1816
- Wills 1809
- Records of enslaved people 1814
- In the chronology
- 1951 to 1976 2 people in 2 entries, most in the 1950s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Haw River (3)
- Married into
- Thompson 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Holt 4, Williams 2, Pleasant 2, Thompson 2
- Spellings to try
- Blaik
- Search beyond these records
- Blair 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 Blair there)
- Blair in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 2 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
In the historical records 18 records
5 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 1 marriages, 8 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 1 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Blair marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1772DeedsJohn Blair to Ephraim Logue, 28 February 1772
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Blair Thomas
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: John Blair (Orange District)
- 1792MarriagesMarriage bond: James Blair and Mary Thompson
- 1798DeedsJohn Thompson to James Blair, 28 February 1798
- 1798Court minutesDeed, Jno Thompson to James Blair, acknowledged in court.
1800s
1810s
- 1814DeedsJohn Blair to Isaac Holt & Mary Holt, 23 July 1814
- 1814Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): John Blair to Isaac Holt, Mary Holt, 23 July 1814
- 1816Court minutesDeed, James Blair to Thomas Pleasant, proved by Joseph Clendenin.
Undated
- Court minutesSamuel Blair replaced John Adam Salling as road overseer.
- Court minutesThomas Moore replaced Samuel Blair as road overseer.
- Court minutesThe court appointed James Blair as road overseer.
- Court minutesDeed, James Blair to James Williams, proved by Jonathan Lindly.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of John Blair granted to Isaac Holt; sureties Thomas Ruffin and Fredrick Nash.
- Court minutesDeed of Gift, John Blair to Isaac Holt & Wife, proved by D Albright.
