Orange County Indexed
The Cope surname
The Cope name in Orange County Indexed: 19 historical records.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1857
most named in the 1790s
- Tax lists 1755
- Court minutes 1789–1800
- Deeds 1795–1801
- Marriages 1795–1857
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Quaker Creek (3), Back Creek (2), Great Road (2), Hillsborough (1)
- Married into
- Boyd 1, Whitsitt 1, Merritt 1, Marten 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Barnwell 4, Hicks 2, Lynch 2
- Spellings to try
- Coope
- Search beyond these records
- Cope 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 Cope there)
- Cope 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 19 records
5 deeds, 4 marriages, 9 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Cope marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: William Cope
1780s
- 1789Court minutesThe court appointed Henry Cope as road overseer.
1790s
- 1791Court minutesThe court appointed Barney Clapp as road overseer, replacing Henry Cope?.
- 1795DeedsZebedee Hicks to Richard Cope, 20 October 1795
- 1795MarriagesMarriage bond: George Cope and Hannah Boyd
- 1795MarriagesMarriage bond: Richard Cope and Sarah Whitsitt
- 1795Court minutesThe court appointed John Rives as road overseer.
- 1796DeedsJohn Barnwell to Horatio Cope, 3 December 1796
- 1797DeedsRichard Cope to Micajah Debruler, 25 February 1797
- 1797DeedsRobert Barnwell to Richard Cope, 16 March 1797
- 1797Court minutesOn W Duffie’s motion, the court ordered certification of Richard Cope’s land payment receipt and a duplicate warrant.
1800s
1850s
- 1857MarriagesMarriage bond: Paisley Marten and Margaret Cope
