Orange County Indexed
The Dochester surname
The Dochester name in Orange County Indexed: 5 historical records.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1761
most named in the 1750s
- Tax lists 1755
- Deeds 1761
- Spellings to try
- Dogester, Dorchester
- Search beyond these records
- Dochester 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 Dochester there)
- Dochester 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 5 records
1 deeds, 3 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. Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: James Dochester
1760s
Undated
- Court minutesA jury was appointed for the road from John Roberson’s toward Solomon Debow’s and McCoy’s mill; William Lea became overseer.
- Court minutesJoseph Morgan and James Dochester were each fined twenty pounds for failing to appear in David Lowe’s suit against Josias Wallace.
- Court minutesIsaac Allen, Jonathan Allen, Solomon Debow, Leonard Hoff and Ephraim Gold were assigned roadwork from Country line to Hico ford under Jam…
