Orange County Indexed
The Donaldson surname
The Donaldson name in Orange County Indexed: 20 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1826
most named in the 1790s
- Tax lists 1755–1790
- Deeds 1767–1826
- Wills 1770–1794
- Marriages 1788
- Court minutes 1795–1796
- In the chronology
- 1830 to 1843 2 people in 4 entries, most in the 1840s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Chapel Hill (2), Richland Creek (1), S Hico Creek (1)
- Married into
- Riley 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Burke 2
- People with a page here
- Robert Donaldson Jr.
- Spellings to try
- Donalson, Donelson, Donalsson, Donilson, Donnalson
- Search beyond these records
- Donaldson 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 Donaldson there)
- Donaldson 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 2 people
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.
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Donaldson, Robert 4 entries, 1830–1843
Show the 4 entries
- 1830s: Robert Donaldson has A. J. Davis design a campus hall for the Philanthropic Society that is never built
- 1840–1861: Enlarging the antebellum campus, 1840–1861
- November 28, 1843: Swain authorizes Donaldson to bring architect A. J. Davis to the university
- October 1843: Trustees tell Swain to ask Robert Donaldson about plans for society halls and a landscape gardener
- Donaldson, Robert, Jr. 4 entries, 1830–1843
In the historical records 20 records
5 deeds, 1 marriages, 9 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 3 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. Donaldson marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: Robert Donaldson
1760s
1770s
- 1770WillsWill of Robert Donaldson
- 1771DeedsJames Lea to Thomas Donaldson, 18 October 1771
1780s
- 1788MarriagesMarriage bond: James Donaldson and Mary Riley
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: James Donaldson (Hillsborough District)
- 1791WillsWill of John Riley (or Rieley)
- 1792DeedsStockley Donaldson to James Grant, 22 September 1792
- 1794DeedsAndrew Burke to Robert Donaldson, 29 August 1794
- 1794WillsWill of Grizzel McCallister
- 1795Court minutesRob’t Donaldson’s firm recovered against Andrew Burke after a partial payment on the first count and no payment on the second.
- 1795Court minutesEdm’d Jones won damages against James Patterson and Jno Hogan; the jury found neither payment nor setoff.
- 1795Court minutesWm Clarke and his unnamed wife were nonsuited in detinue against James Donaldson.
- 1796Court minutesJoseph Brown recovered damages and costs against Stockly Donaldson for breached covenants; jurors found Brown had paid and rejected tende…
1820s
Undated
- Court minutesThe court selected grand and petit jurors for the Supreme Court’s May session.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Thomas Donaldson granted to Thomas Hart.
- Court minutesThos. Donaldson’s administrators were ordered to sell his perishable estate.
- Court minutesThe administrator returned the sheriff’s sale of Thomas Donaldson’s estate.
- Court minutesThe court appointed James Andrew as road overseer, replacing James Donaldson.
