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Orange County Indexed

The Boyd surname

The Boyd name in Orange County Indexed: 57 historical records, 10 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1759 to 1895 most named in the 1760s
  • Deeds 1759–1787
  • Wills 1760
  • Tax lists 1779–1790
  • Court minutes 1795
  • Marriages 1795–1895
In the chronology
1775 to 1985 10 people in 15 entries, most in the 1870s
In books and archives
2 people, born 1738 to 1910
Places in its deeds and wills
Back Creek (1), Haw River (1), Second creek of New Hope (1), Neuse River (1), Newbern (1), Chowan Co (1), Bird's Creek (1), Halifax (1)
Married into
Cope 1, Phillips 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Granville 4, Brashear 2, Brantley 2, Allen 2, Fuller 2, Bohannon 2
People with a page here
Adam Boyd, Bernard H. (Bernard Henry) Boyd
Search beyond these records

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 10 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 books and archives 2 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 57 records

10 deeds, 3 marriages, 38 court minutes, 4 tax list entries 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. Boyd marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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