Orange County Indexed
The Clanton surname
The Clanton name in Orange County Indexed: 14 historical records.
- In the records
- 1763 to 1828
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1763–1828
- Records of enslaved people 1828
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Little Creek (1), Haw Branch (1), Haw River (1)
- Often named with
- Wilson 4, Watts 2, Granville 2
- Spellings to try
- Clinton, Clayton, Clynton
- Search beyond these records
- Clanton 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 Clanton there)
- Clanton 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 14 records
9 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people and 3 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
1760s
1770s
1820s
- 1828DeedsJohn Wilson to Richard S Clanton, 15 April 1828
- 1828DeedsJohn Wilson to Richard S Clanton, 14 April 1828
- 1828Records of enslaved peopleMortgage: John Wilson to Richard S Clanton, 15 April 1828
- 1828Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): John Wilson to Richard S Clanton, 14 April 1828
Undated
- Court minutesA jury was appointed for the road from Robert Patterson’s toward the county line; John Brantley and James Copeland became overseers.
- Court minutesNamed men and specified taxables were assigned the Haw River–Roberson’s Ford road in Wm. Petty Senior’s district.
- Court minutesWm Hamilton and company brought a debt claim against Benjamin Clanton.
