Orange County Indexed
The Forrist surname
The Forrist name in Orange County Indexed: 13 historical records.
- In the records
- 1759 to 1796
most named in the 1780s
- Deeds 1759–1766
- Marriages 1781–1785
- Court minutes 1781–1796
- Married into
- Clark 1, Standifor 1, Hill 1 · the marriages
- Spellings to try
- Forrest, Forrists
- Search beyond these records
- Forrist 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 Forrist there)
- Forrist 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 13 records
3 deeds, 3 marriages and 7 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Forrist marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
1760s
1780s
- 1781MarriagesMarriage bond: Benjamin Standifor and Rachel Forrist
- 1781Court minutesThe sheriff was ordered to summon twenty-six named jurors for the next county court on the fourth Monday in February.
- 1784MarriagesMarriage bond: John Forrist and Mary Clark
- 1785MarriagesMarriage bond: Benjamin Forrist and Sarah Hill
1790s
Undated
- Court minutesThirteen jurors were appointed to lay out a road from Red Fields ford to the Western Road at Little River.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of John Manen granted to Benjamin Forrist; sureties Phillip Johnston and Phillip Dosset.
- Court minutesJurors rejected payment and setoff in John Ray and James Jamerson’s action against Rob’t Carson and Jno Carrington.
- Court minutesJustices Wm Ray, Wm Rainey, Benj Lacy and 19 others attended the court.
