Orange County Indexed
The Dicks surname
The Dicks name in Orange County Indexed: 32 historical records and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1782 to 1828
most named in the 1790s
- Wills 1782–1828
- Deeds 1787–1805
- Court minutes 1790–1799
- Marriages 1790–1826
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Cane Creek (7), Jonathan Lindley’s Mill (1), Eno River (1), Spring Meeting (1), Paoli (1)
- Married into
- Lindley 1, Hornaday 1, McFerson 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Lindley 3, Harvey 3
- Spellings to try
- Dicky
- Search beyond these records
- Dicks 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 Dicks there)
- Dicks 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 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.
- Dicks Family family, 1 work
In the historical records 32 records
9 deeds, 3 marriages, 16 court minutes and 4 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. Dicks marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1780s
1790s
- 1790MarriagesMarriage bond: Peter Dicks and Mary Lindley
- 1790Court minutesDeed, Zacharias Dicks to Nath’l Morrison, proved by Isaac Dicks.
- 1791Court minutesThe court appointed James Neal as road overseer, replacing Nathan Dicks.
- 1792DeedsZacharias Dicks & Ruth Dicks to Jonathan Lindley, 1792
- 1792DeedsZacharias Dicks to William Hervie, 27 August 1792
- 1792DeedsZacharias Dicks to Eli Harvey, 27 August 1792
- 1792DeedsZacharias Dicks to Nathan Dicks, 20 November 1792
- 1792MarriagesMarriage bond: Ezekiel Hornaday and Mary Dicks
- 1792Court minutesDeed, James Woodey et Uxor to Jonathan Lindly, proved by Zacharias Dicks.
- 1792Court minutesDeed, Zacharias Dicks to Jonathan Lindley, acknowledged in court.
- 1793DeedsZacharias Dicks to Nathan Dicks, 1793
- 1799Court minutesJurors found for John McRory in Hardy Hurdle’s action.
- 1799Court minutesCharles Reed and company were nonsuited against Wm Forsyth.
1800s
- 1800WillsWill of John Murray
- 1801WillsWill of Lewis (x) Brewer
- 1805DeedsNathan Dicks to John McPherson, 26 August 1805
1820s
- 1826MarriagesMarriage bond: James Dicks and Mary McFerson
- 1828WillsWill of Jonathan Lindley
Undated
- Court minutesWill of Thomas Lindley, proved by Zacharias Dicks & John Carter.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire; five named jurors were marked excused.
- Court minutesFifteen grand jurors were sworn.
- Court minutesA jury was assigned to survey a route between marked trees at opposite ends of Wm Harvey’s lane and report.
- Court minutesThe court appointed Peter Foust as road overseer.
- Court minutesJames Carson recovered nominal damages and costs against John Taylor Sr.
- Court minutesThe court recorded Isaac Harvey, Jonathan Nichols, James Cain and 12 others for jury service.
- Court minutesNathan Dicks became guardian of May Massey.
- Court minutesJurors convicted Wm Blackman, and a fine was recorded without an amount.
- Court minutesThe court ordered James Moore, Robert Harris, John Tinnen and 26 others summoned for the next county-court jury service.
