Orange County Indexed
The Brantley surname
The Brantley name in Orange County Indexed: 27 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1759 to 1769
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1759–1768
- Wills 1760–1769
- Court minutes 1761–1764
- In the chronology
- 1935 to 1937 2 people in 3 entries
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Mebane (1), Hillsborough (1), Second creek of New Hope (1)
- Often named with
- Bohannon 4, Granville 2, Baker 2, McNeel 2, Boyd 2, Parker 2
- Spellings to try
- Brinkley, Bradley, Bartley, Brantly
- Search beyond these records
- Brantley 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 Brantley there)
- Brantley 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.
- Brantley, A. P. 2 entries, 1936–1937
- Brantley, Allen P. 1 entry, 1935
In the historical records 27 records
6 deeds, 19 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. Search the name in every collection
1750s
1760s
- 1760WillsWill of Duncan Bohannon
- 1761DeedsJohn Brantley to William Riddle, August 1761
- 1761Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Lewis Brantley granted to Mary Brantley; sureties John Brantley and Henry Braswell.
- 1763DeedsEarl Granville to John Brantley, November 1763
- 1764Court minutesCommissions as justices of the peace were issued to twenty-four named men.
- 1765DeedsThomas Harriss to Lewis Brantley, August 1765
- 1765DeedsEarl Granville to Joseph Brantley, August 1765
- 1768DeedsJohn Pryor & Laurence Thompson & John Patterson & Andrew Mitchell & John McGee & Thomas Lloyd & William Lee & Richard Parker & Tyree Harris & David Hart & Thomas Hart & John King & John Brantley & Richard Simpson & Robert Lytle & John Oliver & Thomas Hines & John Lee & William Thompson & William Johnston & James Thackston & John Payne & George Allen & Alexander Mebane Jr & Nathaniel Jones & Charles Crawford as Justices of the Peace for Orange County to William Johnston, 4 March 1768
- 1769WillsWill of John Record
Undated
- Court minutesBlake Baker brought a petition against John Brantley.
- Court minutesBlake Baker brought a petition against John Brantley.
- Court minutesHector McNeel brought an action on the case against John Brantley.
- Court minutesDeed of Sale, Hector McNeel to John Brantley.
- Court minutesSix petit jurors were named.
- Court minutesA jury was appointed for the road from Robert Patterson’s toward the county line; John Brantley and James Copeland became overseers.
- Court minutesWill of Duncan Bohannon, proved by Joseph Brantley.
- Court minutesThe court defined John Brantley’s district using Beaver Creek, county boundaries, Deep River, Bush Creek and Arons Creek.
- Court minutesConstables Robert Marsh, Elijah Caine and John Boyd were ordered to summon taxables in John Brantley’s district.
- Court minutesEight justices returned their lists of taxables.
- Court minutesThe court met the following morning with four named justices presiding.
- Court minutesEleven named workers were assigned to open and repair the Hodges Ford–Copeland’s Island road under William Riddle.
- Court minutesAaron Harland received permission for a Rocky River gristmill, with four men appointed to examine and lay off one acre.
- Court minutesJoseph Brantley brought an action on the case against John Bohannon.
- Court minutesWm. Brantley brought an action on the case against John Bohannon.
- Court minutesThe court resumed after half an hour with four named justices present.
- Court minutesJohn Brantley, Richard Parker and Enoch Spinks returned their tax lists.
