Orange County Indexed
The Cummings surname
The Cummings name in Orange County Indexed: 26 historical records, 1 person in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1765 to 1804
most named in the 1780s
- Court minutes 1765–1804
- Deeds 1795
- Marriages 1804
- In the chronology
- 1787 1 person in 1 entry
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1894
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Flat River (1)
- Married into
- Dodson 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Hart 3, Carrington 2, Lowe 2, Trotter 2
- People with a page here
- E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
- Spellings to try
- Cumming, Cummins, Cummens, Cummons, Commins
- Search beyond these records
- Cummings 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 Cummings there)
- Cummings 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 books and archives 1 heading
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 26 records
1 deeds, 1 marriages and 24 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Cummings marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
- 1765Court minutesJames Cummings received permission to operate an ordinary.
1780s
1790s
1800s
- 1804MarriagesMarriage bond: Edward Dodson and Elizabeth Cummings
- 1804Court minutesDeed, John Carrington to James Cummings, proved by Nicholas Green.
Undated
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings qualified to practice law in Orange.
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings requested Jane Mayner’s appointment as guardian of Betty and Ann; Jane was to appear and enter bond.
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings brought an action on the case against Conrod Lowe.
- Court minutesWm. Cummings brought a petition against Notley Hollis.
- Court minutesJames Cummings received permission to operate an ordinary.
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings brought an action on the case against Joseph Trotter.
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings brought an action on the case against Adam Butner.
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings brought a petition against Thomas ---ey (?).
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings brought a petition against Benjamin Phillips.
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings brought an action on the case against Conrod Lowe.
- Court minutesJames Cummings became keeper of the county’s public standard.
- Court minutesGeorge Foutz was bound to keep the peace toward his wife and others, with Thomas Hart and James Cummings as sureties.
- Court minutesWilliam Cummings brought an action on the case against Joseph Trotter.
- Court minutesWm. Cummings brought an action on the case against Conn’s unnamed administrators.
- Court minutesJames Cummings was ordered to deliver the standard to William Reed and file Reed’s receipt with the clerk.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of James Cummings granted to Mary Cummings and Thomas Hart; sureties David Hart and Edmund Fanning.
- Court minutesWm. Cummings and And. Brooks were appointed additional patrollers for Hillsborough.
- Court minutesWm. Cummings’s suit against Henry Morris ended in a nonsuit.
- Court minutesWm. Cummings proceeded against Henry Morris before a substituted jury; Henry Morris and Owen Lloyd bonded for the younger Morris’s appeal.
- Court minutesThe jury awarded William Edwards damages for a promise within three years; only William Cummings’s and Benjamin Yeargain’s witness attend…
