Orange County Indexed
The Close surname
The Close name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1812 to 1815
most named in the 1810s
- Court minutes 1812–1814
- Deeds 1814–1815
- In the chronology
- 1796 to 1814 1 person in 2 entries, most in the 1790s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Eno River (1), Chapel Hill (1)
- Often named with
- Bailey 2, Partin 2, Whitted 2
- Spellings to try
- Closs, Cloze, Clone
- Search beyond these records
- Close 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 Close there)
- Close 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 1 person
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.
In the historical records 8 records
2 deeds and 6 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
- 1812Court minutesThe jury awarded William Whitted damages against John Close.
- 1812Court minutesThe jury awarded Wm Whitted damages against John Close.
- 1813Court minutesArch’d D Murphy and James Patterson secured a stay of execution in Wm Williams’s action.
- 1814DeedsJohn Close to Bennett Partin, 15 January 1814
- 1814Court minutesThe jury awarded Barnabas O’Farrell ?? damages against John Close.
- 1815DeedsClaudius Bailey to John Close, 2 March 1815
