Orange County Indexed
The Dennis surname
The Dennis name in Orange County Indexed: 46 historical records.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1879
most named in the 1760s
- Tax lists 1755
- Court minutes 1755–1816
- Wills 1761
- Deeds 1763–1843
- Marriages 1831–1879
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Buck Quarter Creek (6), Eno River (2), Raleigh Road (2), Ellerbe Creek (1), Markhams Branch (1), Markham Branch (1), Hillsborough (1), Spring Lane Street (1)
- Married into
- Jackson 1, Finch 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Marley 4, McNair 3, Edwards 2, Sell 2, Granville 2, Ashfield 2, Bradley 2, Jackson 2, Meherg 2
- Spellings to try
- Dennin, Dennes, Dennise
- Search beyond these records
- Dennis 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 Dennis there)
- Dennis 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 46 records
23 deeds, 2 marriages, 18 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 1 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Dennis marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Court minutesJohn Dennis replaced Isaac Jackson as road overseer.
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: John Dennis
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: Samuel Dennis
1760s
- 1761WillsWill of Mary Shepheard
- 1763DeedsEarl Granville to John Dennis, November 1763
- 1764DeedsJohn Dennis to Henry Ashfield, November 1764
- 1764DeedsJohn Dennis to Henry Ashfield, November 1764
- 1764Court minutesThe court apprenticed Naomi Fisher to John Dennis until age 18.
- 1765DeedsJohn Dennis to Edward Dennis, May 1765
- 1765DeedsJohn Dennis to Enoch Bradley, November 1765
- 1765DeedsJohn Dennis to Enoch Bradley, November 1765
- 1765Court minutesJohn Dowell’s ordinary license was renewed with John Dennis and John Stroud as bondsmen.
- 1767DeedsJohn Dennis to Ralph McNair, November 1767
- 1769DeedsJohn Dennis & Mary Dennis to David Copeland, 2 January 1769
- 1769DeedsIsaac Dennis to Ralph McNair, 24 January 1769
- 1769DeedsJohn Dennis to Ralph McNair, 26 January 1769
- 1769DeedsJohn Dennis & Mary Dennis to Isaac Dennis, 24 January 1769
1770s
1780s
1800s
1810s
- 1810DeedsJohn Dennis to Isaac Dennis, 21 March 1810
- 1810DeedsIsaac Dennis to Robert Marley, 21 March 1810
- 1816Court minutesDeed, John Edwards to James Dennis, proved by John Cabe.
- 1816Court minutesDeed, James Dennis to Thomas Guinn, proved by George Brassfield.
1830s
1840s
1870s
- 1879MarriagesMarriage license: John L Finch and Allie D Dennis
Undated
- DeedsJohn Dennis to Henry Sell, March 1759
- DeedsEarl Granville to John Dennis, March 1759
- Court minutesJohn Dennis received permission to operate an ordinary.
- Court minutesWilliam Nunn replaced John Dennis as road overseer.
- Court minutesJohn Dennis stated that the horse John Frohawk delivered to Thomas Capper belonged to Capper and was believed taken earlier by Indigenous…
- Court minutesJacob Mason brought a petition against John Dennis.
- Court minutesThomas Hart brought a debt claim against John Dennis.
- Court minutesJames Way brought a debt claim against John Dennis.
- Court minutesJames Young and company brought a debt claim against Abraham Dennis and John Dennis.
- Court minutesJohn Meherg brought a debt claim against Abraham Dennis.
- Court minutesJohn Meherg brought a debt claim against John Dennis.
- Court minutesThe jury awarded Wm Dennis £14.10.4 in damages plus costs against Thos Burke’s executors.
- Court minutesOn Wm Duffy’s motion for Jno Kelly, the court commissioned acknowledgment of Isaac Dennis’s conveyance to Robert Marley in Georgia.
- Court minutesDeed, John Dennis & Mary his wife to Isaac Dennis, acknowledged in court.
- Court minutesDeed, Isaac Dennis & wife to Robert Marley, acknowledged in court.
