Orange County Indexed
The Brian surname
The Brian name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records.
- In the records
- 1761 to 1794
most named in the 1780s
- Deeds 1761–1794
- Tax lists 1780
- Court minutes 1787
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Little River (1), Hoovers Branch (1), Back Creek (1)
- Spellings to try
- Bryan, Briant, Brians
- Search beyond these records
- Brian 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 Brian there)
- Brian 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 8 records
3 deeds, 4 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, 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
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
Undated
- Court minutesJosias Dixon and Lawrence Thompson became guardians of Jeremiah Douglas’s orphan children Joseph and Mary Douglas, whose grandfather Jose…
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire naming the listed prospective jurors.
- Court minutesDeed, George Herndon to Samuel Brian, proved by Stephen Ellis.
