Orange County Indexed
The Bower surname
The Bower name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records.
- In the records
- 1770 to 1821
most named in the 1790s
- Wills 1770
- Deeds 1792–1821
- Court minutes 1798
- Records of enslaved people 1821
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Little Cane Creek (1), Collins Creek (1)
- Often named with
- Cain 2
- Spellings to try
- Bowers, Bowen, Brower, Bowes, Boner, Boger
- Search beyond these records
- Bower 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 Bower there)
- Bower 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 historical records 6 records
3 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 1 court minutes 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. Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1770WillsWill of George Bower
1790s
- 1792DeedsWilliam Lloyd to Ezekiel Bower, 18 August 1792
- 1798Court minutesDeed, Thomas Cate to George Smith, proved by Green Bower.
1810s
1820s
- 1821DeedsW G Bower to William Cain Jr, 12 September 1821
- 1821Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): W G Bower to William Cain Jr, 12 September 1821
