Orange County Indexed
The Broom surname
The Broom name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records.
- In the records
- 1811 to 1815
most named in the 1810s
- Court minutes 1811–1814
- Records of enslaved people 1812
- Deeds 1815
- Often named with
- Harris 3
- Spellings to try
- Brook, Broome
- Search beyond these records
- Broom 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 Broom there)
- Broom 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
1 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people and 4 court minutes, 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
1810s
- 1811Court minutesAfter James Nicholson resigned, Melus Broom was appointed temporary constable and offered unnamed sureties.
- 1812Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Archibald Harris, Miles Broom to Nathaniel Harris, 8 February 1812
- 1814Court minutesThe jury awarded James Murray &c damages and costs against Charles Broom.
- 1815DeedsArchibald Harris & Milus Broom to Nathaniel Harris, 28 September 1815
