Orange County Indexed
The Dosset surname
The Dosset name in Orange County Indexed: 18 historical records.
- In the records
- 1763 to 1803
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1763–1803
- Marriages 1785
- Court minutes 1790–1800
- Wills 1801
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Walter’s Cabin Branch (1)
- Married into
- Cates 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Alves 2
- Spellings to try
- Dossett, Dorset, Dossit, Dossey
- Search beyond these records
- Dosset 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 Dosset there)
- Dosset 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 18 records
2 deeds, 1 marriages, 14 court minutes 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. Dosset marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1780s
- 1785MarriagesMarriage bond: Thomas Dosset and Nancy Cates
1790s
- 1790Court minutesThe court appointed Wm Dosset as road overseer, replacing Lazarus Cate.
- 1790Court minutesThe court appointed a jury to survey the proposed Dossets–Johnstons Store road and report next term.
- 1790Court minutesThe court ordered jurors James Dinon, Thomas Denon, James Beason and 27 others summoned for the November county court.
- 1798Court minutesWm Dosset recovered slander damages and costs against William Ansley after default; the court issued a rule concerning a new trial.
- 1798Court minutesJurors acquitted Wm Dosset of a misdemeanor; the court charged the unnamed prosecutor with costs.
- 1798Court minutesJurors convicted Anthony Haston of assault.
1800s
Undated
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of John Manen granted to Benjamin Forrist; sureties Phillip Johnston and Phillip Dosset.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the executed venire listing summoned jurors.
- Court minutesWm Dosset entered recognizance to answer an assault charge involving Wm Ansley, with Wm Hall providing additional security.
- Court minutesThe court appointed John Cain as road overseer.
- Court minutesThe court fined Samuel Scott, Thomas Horn and Wm Dosset for failing to attend as additional jurors.
- Court minutesJurors acquitted Wm Marcum of assault; the court charged Francis Moreland with prosecution costs.
- Court minutesDeed, Elizabeth Ware, Willis Dosset and Sarah his wife to George Keary, proved by Robert J Dickey.
