Orange County Indexed
The Fruit surname
The Fruit name in Orange County Indexed: 14 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1818
most named in the 1750s
- Court minutes 1755
- Tax lists 1755–1790
- Deeds 1770–1818
- In the chronology
- 1771 1 person in 1 entry
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Stony Creek (1), Sandy Creek (1)
- Often named with
- Smith 2
- Spellings to try
- Fruitt
- Search beyond these records
- Fruit 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 Fruit there)
- Fruit 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 1 person
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.
In the historical records 14 records
2 deeds, 8 court minutes and 4 tax list entries, 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
1750s
- 1755Court minutesJames Fruit replaced Hugh Smith as overseer under Alex. Mebane.
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: James Fruit
1770s
- 1770DeedsJacob Gregg to John Fruit, 20 August 1770
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Fruit James
1780s
- 1780Tax listsThe 1780–81 tax lists: Fruit, Jas. (Orange District)
1790s
1810s
Undated
- Court minutesThe nine named petit jurors failed to appear.
- Court minutesFrancis Fruit replaced Hugh Smith as constable.
- Court minutesRobert Willey was appointed constable between James Fruit’s and James Espey’s districts.
- Court minutesTwo juries were appointed to lay out a road from Alexander Mebane’s toward the Peedee warehouse route, divided at the Cain Creek meetingh…
- Court minutesDennis Wheeler brought a debt claim against James Fruit.
- Court minutesJames Fruit brought an original attachment proceeding against Nicholas Burndrake.
- Court minutesThe court apprenticed Hannah Beverley to John Fruit until age 18.
