Orange County Indexed
The Connelly surname
The Connelly name in Orange County Indexed: 33 historical records.
- In the records
- 1776 to 1796
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1776–1777
- Court minutes 1777–1796
- Marriages 1787
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Price Creek (1), Morgan Creek (1), Prices Creek (1), Birds Branch (1)
- Married into
- Gattis 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Price 2, Edwards 2, Piper 2
- Spellings to try
- Connally, Conally, Cornell, Connaly, Conwell, Connell, Coneley, Conelly
- Search beyond these records
- Connelly 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 Connelly there)
- Connelly 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 33 records
2 deeds, 1 marriages and 30 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Connelly marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1776DeedsThomas Connelly to Hugh Edwards, 27 April 1776
- 1777DeedsJohn Price to Thomas Connelly, 13 September 1777
- 1777Court minutesDeed, Hugh Edwards to Thos. Connelly.
- 1779Court minutesDeed, John Price to Thomas Connelly.
1780s
- 1783Court minutesFour appraisers were appointed to value an acre each of John Walker’s and Richard Bush’s land for Bush’s proposed mill.
- 1786Court minutesThe sheriff was ordered to summon jurors John Barbie, Alexr. Piper, John Connelly and 29 others for next term.
- 1787MarriagesMarriage bond: John Gattis and Elizabeth Connelly
- 1787Court minutesThe court directed the sheriff to summon jurors Lewis Hornaday, Joseph Wills Sen’r, James Craig Jun’r and 29 others for the next county c…
1790s
- 1791Court minutesThe jury found against Jacob Graves in Smith’s ejectment action; arrest of judgment was withdrawn and the new-trial rule discharged.
- 1792Court minutesThe jury found the bond unpaid and awarded Dan’l Booth damages and costs against Thomas Connelly.
- 1795Court minutesDeed, Thomas Connelly to John Connelly, acknowledged in court.
- 1796Court minutesDeed, Thomas Connelly to George Johnston, proved by John McCauley.
- 1796Court minutesDeed, Thomas Connelly to Titus Atwater, proved by John Piper.
Undated
- Court minutesTwelve jurors were appointed to lay out the route toward Hillsborough from Chatham courthouse across Haw River at Morgans mill to the cou…
- Court minutesJohn Morgan, Thomas Connelly and Thomas Raeborne were fined forty shillings for contempt after failing to appear as road jurors.
- Court minutesThos. Connelly became overseer from Flat Rock near Wm. Partons to the Chatham County line.
- Court minutesThirty-one printed juror names were listed for the next county court on the fourth Monday in November.
- Court minutesThomas Connelly, Henry Hastings, Wm. Whithead and Wm. Oneal were fined for jury nonattendance; Connelly’s fine was remitted.
- Court minutesJohn Hopkins faced a state trespass case before twelve named jurors.
- Court minutesJohn Weems became guardian of Alexander McCarty, orphan of Wm. McCarthy, on a £1,000 bond secured by Thos. Connelly and Wm. Pickett.
- Court minutesThirty named jurors were appointed to attend court.
- Court minutesNamed jurors were listed for the next county court.
- Court minutesWilliam Merritt’s mill petition was postponed; five appraisers were appointed to value one acre of John Morgan’s land and report next court.
- Court minutesTwenty-six people were ordered summoned for the next Hillsborough county court.
- Court minutesAlexr. Piper replaced Thos. Connelly as road overseer from the Chatham line to Flat Rock.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the executed venire naming the summoned jurors.
- Court minutesThe jury returned a verdict favoring Thomas Surles against John Kelley.
- Court minutesThe jury convicted Wm O’Neal of assault.
- Court minutesTho Burke’s executors won damages and costs against Geo Doherty and Wm Mebane; execution was postponed.
- Court minutesThe court appointed a jury to survey a road from the University toward Chatham and report.
- Court minutesThe court appointed a jury to lay out a road from the University toward Cypritts Bridge at the Chatham boundary.
- Court minutesDeed, John Connelly to Richard Blackwood, proved by P Willis.
- Court minutesDeed, John Swisher to Thomas Kent, proved by John Connelly.
