Orange County Indexed
The Bynum surname
The Bynum name in Orange County Indexed: 55 historical records, 6 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1756 to 1911
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1756–1863
- Court minutes 1761–1811
- Tax lists 1790
- Marriages 1818–1911
- Records of enslaved people 1832
- Wills 1844
- In the chronology
- 1836 to 1980 6 people in 10 entries, most in the 1980s
- In books and archives
- 2 people, born 1839 to 1936
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Phils Creek (4), Chapel Hill (1), Morgan Creek (1), Fals Creek (1), Pokeberry Creek (1), Chatham (1), Orange (1), Price's Creek (1)
- Married into
- Atwater 2, Lloyd 2, Aywater 1, Beasley 1, Bolden 1, Hatch 1, Winningham 1, Curtis 1, Tenny 1, Jenkins 1, West 1, Pendergrass 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Stephens 4, Clements 3, Hatch 2, McCauley 2, Hightower 2, King 2, Stagg 2
- Spellings to try
- Binum
- Search beyond these records
- Bynum 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 Bynum there)
- Bynum 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 6 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.
- Bynum, John Gray 1 entry, 1836
- Bynum, Turner 1 entry, 1860
- Bynum, W. P., Jr. 1 entry, 1894
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Bynum, William 5 entries, 1970–1980
Show the 5 entries
- 1970–1993: Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, 1970–1993
- November 30, 1979: About 200 Black students rally at South Building for Sonja Stone's tenure
- January 30, 1980: Andrew Young gives the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
- January 24, 1980: Kappa Alpha Psi roasts Dean Hayden B. Renwick in Great Hall
- by January 1980: Chancellor Taylor names a faculty committee to rehear the Stone tenure case
- Bynum, William Preston 2 entries, 1900–1905
- Bynum, William Preston, Jr. 1 entry, 1905
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 55 records
19 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 17 marriages, 16 court minutes, 1 tax list entries 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. Bynum marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
1760s
- 1761Court minutesA jury was appointed for the courthouse road through Pendergrasses ford to Tucker’s Road; Isaac Collins and Robert Pendergrass became ove…
- 1763DeedsEarl Granville to Luke Bynum, November 1763
- 1763DeedsLuke Bynum to Benjamin Clements, November 1763
- 1764DeedsBenjamin Arrenton [Harrington] to Luke Bynum, February 1764
- 1764DeedsBenjamin Clements to Luke Bynum, February 1764
- 1764DeedsGray Bynum to William Ware, November 1764
- 1765DeedsLuke Bynum to Daniel Murphy, May 1765
- 1765DeedsLuke and Martin Bynum to John Hatley, May 1765
- 1767DeedsWilliam Pickett to James Bynum, May 1767
- 1768DeedsBenjamin Arrington to Luke Bynum, July 1768
- 1768DeedsLuke and Martha Bynum to William Blyth, October 1768
1780s
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: John Bynum (St. Thomas’ District)
- 1791DeedsWilliam Bynum & Mary Bynum to Ambrose Petty, 26 August 1791
- 1791DeedsWilliam Bynum & Mary Bynum to Jesse Hoggwood, 26 August 1791
- 1791Court minutesDeed, Hightower to William Bynum, proved by Thomas Connally.
- 1793DeedsWilliam Bynum to Jesse Heagwood [Jesse Hagwood], 1793
1810s
- 1811Court minutesThe court appointed Henson Colter as road overseer.
- 1818MarriagesMarriage bond: Thomas Hatch and Mary Bynum
1830s
1840s
- 1840MarriagesMarriage bond: Augustus W Bynum and Mary E Winningham
- 1844WillsWill of Francis Jones
1850s
1860s
1870s
- 1870MarriagesMarriage license: William Bynum and Mary L Curtis
- 1872MarriagesMarriage license: Taylor Bynum and Anna Tenny
1880s
- 1880MarriagesMarriage license: Henry Bynum and Lessey Jenkins
- 1881MarriagesMarriage license: Haywood Bynum and Bella West
- 1885MarriagesMarriage license: Robt Bynum and Lavinia Pendergrass
- 1886MarriagesMarriage license: Abe Bynum and Clara Bolden
1890s
- 1891MarriagesMarriage license: Fred Weaver and Nannie Bynum
- 1893MarriagesMarriage license: John Bynum and Jennett Snipes
1900s
- 1903MarriagesMarriage license: S W Bynum and Bertha Lloyd
- 1904MarriagesMarriage license: Jerry Bynum and Mary Aywater
- 1906MarriagesMarriage license: Daniel Beasley and Callie Bynum
- 1907MarriagesMarriage license: Charles Harvey and Agie Bynum
1910s
- 1911MarriagesMarriage license: John Lloyd and Eliza Bynum
Undated
- Court minutesThe court selected grand and petty jurors for the next Supreme Court at Salisbury serving Orange, Rowan and Anson counties.
- Court minutesSix jurors were appointed to attend the next superior court for Halifax District on September first.
- Court minutesLuke Bynum brought a petition against Jacob Mason.
- Court minutesThomas Stagg, Luke Bynum and Thomas King were allowed payment for attendance at Halifax superior court.
- Court minutesNamed men were appointed to open the road from Island Ford on Haw River to Childsburg.
- Court minutesNamed men under William Ware’s jurisdiction were assigned work on his road.
- Court minutesJohn Bynum brought a debt claim against William Stephens.
- Court minutesJohn Bynum brought a debt claim against David Stephens.
- Court minutesJohn Bynum brought an action on the case against Wyatt Stubblefield.
- Court minutesThirteen jurors were appointed to lay out a road from Red Fields ford to the Western Road at Little River.
- Court minutesFifteen men were appointed to lay out a road from Redfields ford on Haw River to New Hope Chapel.
- Court minutesJohn Bynum brought an action on the case against William Stephens.
- Court minutesJohn Bynum brought an action on the case against David Stephens.
