Orange County Indexed
The Flowers surname
The Flowers name in Orange County Indexed: 34 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1788 to 1821
most named in the 1790s
- Records of enslaved people 1788
- Marriages 1788
- Tax lists 1790
- Wills 1791
- Court minutes 1796–1808
- Deeds 1796–1821
- In the chronology
- 1938 to 1976 2 people in 3 entries, most in the 1970s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Morgan Creek (3), Cub Creek (1), Billy Morgans Creek (1)
- Married into
- Morgan 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Morgan 7, Jones 4, Merritt 3, Sparrow 3, Barbee 2, Rencher 2
- Search beyond these records
- Flowers 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 Flowers there)
- Flowers 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.
- Flowers, Martha 2 entries, 1973–1976
- Flowers, R. L. 1 entry, 1938
In the historical records 34 records
7 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 1 marriages, 23 court minutes, 1 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. Flowers marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1780s
- 1788Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): John Morgan to Jacob Flowers, 10 March 1788
- 1788MarriagesMarriage bond: Jacob Flowers Jr and Mary Morgan
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Jacob Flowers (St. Thomas’ District)
- 1791WillsPower of attorney: John Morgan to John Grant Rencher
- 1796DeedsJacob Flowers Jr to John Sparrow, 29 February 1796
- 1796DeedsJacob Flowers to Christopher Barbee, 29 February 1796
- 1796Court minutesThe court assigned named workers to Christopher Barbee’s road.
- 1796Court minutesSamuel Parks Jr recovered principal and damages against Jacob Flowers and Jno Scott; jurors upheld their bond and rejected payment, satis…
1800s
1810s
1820s
Undated
- Court minutesThe jury awarded Jacob Flowers damages and costs against Rob’t Ferguson.
- Court minutesThe jury upheld John Taylor’s bond and recorded a payment finding; an appeal was granted with James Keys and Samuel Benton as sureties.
- Court minutesSamuel Hughes’s nonsuit was set aside, the case reinstated and the declaration amended to replace Thomas with Samuel.
- Court minutesThe jury found William Courtney Jr not liable in Andrew Brooks’s action.
- Court minutesJno O’Dien was nonsuited against Rob’t Campbell on certiorari.
- Court minutesJacob Flowers was fined for missing the sheriff’s jury call.
- Court minutesSamuel Hughes won damages and costs against William and John Ray on a timely obligation.
- Court minutesA juror was withdrawn by consent in Sam’l Strudwick’s action against Archibald Campbell, and Strudwick’s death was reported.
- Court minutesAfter default, the jury upheld Jacob Flowers Jr’s bond and assessed Frances Jones’s damages and costs.
- Court minutesThe court appointed Edward Walton[?] and Jacob Flowers guardians of John Morgan and Soloman Park Morgan; no security was given.
- Court minutesWm Ray recovered damages and costs against John Hogan.
- Court minutesDeed, Jacob Flowers & Benjamin Yeargan to Edmund Jones, proved by John Daniel.
- Court minutesJames Carson recovered damages and costs against Jacob Flowers and others; execution awaited his direction, and an appeal was requested.
- Court minutesA juror was withdrawn in James Patterson’s action against James Ray and James Nicholson.
- Court minutesJohn McCay recovered on John Carrington’s bond with damages and costs after jurors converted Virginia currency and credited two payments.
- Court minutesJno Dunwoodie’s administrators were nonsuited against Elizabeth Dunwoodie; the court denied reinstatement and fined absent witness John M…
- Court minutesJno Fairman’s ejectment action against Jehu Whithead ended in nonsuit.
- Court minutesDeed, Jacob Flowers to Christopher Barbey, proved by Jno Sparrow.
- Court minutesDeed, Jacob Flowers to John Sparrow, proved by Christopher Barbee.
- Court minutesOn Wm Norwood’s motion, the court summoned Jacob Flowers Jr concerning reimbursement to Lewis Kirk for a payment made as Flowers’s surety.
