Orange County Indexed

The Blount surname

The Blount name in Orange County Indexed: 19 historical records, 4 people in the chronology and 5 headings in books and archives.

In the records

1771 to 1894 most named in the 1830s

Deeds 1771–1866
Wills 1784–1864
Court minutes 1811
Marriages 1874–1894

In the chronology

1782 to 1900 4 people in 7 entries, most in the 1790s

In books and archives

5 people, born 1749 to 1941

Places in its deeds and wills

Hillsborough (6), Orange Street (4), Churton Street (3), Union Street (2), Marks Creek (1), Morgan Creek (1), Charleston, S.C (1)

Married into

Adams 1, Blacknall 1, Walker 1, Wilkinson 1, Lyon 1, Wrenn 1 · the marriages

Often named with

Warren 2, Clancy 2

People with a page here

John Gray Blount, Reading Blount, Roy Blount, Jr, Thomas Blount, William Blount

Spellings to try

Blunt

Search beyond these records

Blount 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 Blount there)
Blount 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 4 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.

Blount, David 1 entry, 1900
- July 16, 1900: David Blount, sexton of St. Matthew's, dies in Hillsborough
Blount, Frances 2 entries, 1830
- 1830: Frances Blount buys the Hawks house and the lot beside it
- about 1830: Frances Blount enlarges the house to a center-passage plan
Blount, Thomas 3 entries, 1792–1793
See all 3 entries in the chronology
Blount, William 1 entry, 1782
See the entry in the chronology

In books and archives 5 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

In the historical records 19 records

8 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 6 marriages, 2 court minutes and 2 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. Blount marriages in full · Search the name in every collection