Orange County Indexed
The Gresham surname
The Gresham name in Orange County Indexed: 25 historical records.
- In the records
- 1759 to 1887
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1759–1789
- Wills 1778–1881
- Marriages 1835–1887
- Places in its deeds and wills
- New Hope Creek (1)
- Married into
- Phipps 1, Rhodes 1, Simpson 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- McCulloch 2, Forrest 2, Rhodes 2
- Spellings to try
- Grisham, Gressham, Greham
- Search beyond these records
- Gresham 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 Gresham there)
- Gresham 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 25 records
9 deeds, 3 marriages, 7 court minutes and 6 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. Gresham marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
1760s
1770s
- 1778WillsWill of William Forrest
1780s
1790s
- 1795WillsWill of Henry (x) Dunweddee
1800s
- 1801WillsWill of Elizabeth (x) Tinning
1820s
1830s
- 1832WillsWill of William Whitaker
- 1835MarriagesMarriage bond: Archibald Phipps and Sally Gresham
1840s
1880s
- 1881WillsWill of David J Gresham
- 1887MarriagesMarriage license: David Gresham and Liza Lula Simpson
Undated
- Court minutesFifteen grand jurors were charged.
- Court minutesThirteen jurors were appointed to lay out a road from Red Fields ford to the Western Road at Little River.
- Court minutesThos. Morland, Francis Morland, John Patterson, Davis Gresham and their workers were assigned to road work under Joseph Bough.
- Court minutesDeed, Wm. Rhodes to Archer Gresham, proved by Jno. Rhodes.
- Court minutesJohn Butler, Wm. McCauley, Archer Gresham and John Ray were paid for jury attendance at Superior Court.
- Court minutesWm. Caine became overseer from his house to Jacob Branton’s, with hands Jacob Branton, Thomas James, Jno. Horner and 22 others assigned.
- Court minutesJohn Cabe and the other named commissioners were appointed to allot a year’s provisions to Catharine Grisham.
