Orange County Indexed
The Fossit surname
The Fossit name in Orange County Indexed: 9 historical records.
- In the records
- 1783 to 1785
most named in the 1780s
- Court minutes 1783–1785
- Spellings to try
- Fosset, Fossitt
- Search beyond these records
- Fossit 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 Fossit there)
- Fossit 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 9 records
9 court minutes, 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
1780s
- 1783Court minutesThirty people were appointed jurors for next court.
- 1785Court minutesA jury was sworn in Wm. Logan’s case against James Monro.
- 1785Court minutesThe same jury heard James Ray’s case against James Baldridge.
Undated
- Court minutesTwenty-six people were ordered summoned for the next Hillsborough county court.
- Court minutesWm. Fossit was appointed overseer from Stoney Creek to Quaker Creek.
- Court minutesJames Stockard became overseer from Haw River to Robt. Fossit’s.
- Court minutesAndrew Fossit received permission to keep a tavern at his Hillsborough dwelling.
- Court minutesThe court recorded James Pyles, Wm Bowles Jr, Joseph Tate and 26 others for jury service.
- Court minutesWm Kirkland and company recovered damages and costs against Hardy Morgan’s executors; jurors rejected setoff.
