Orange County Indexed
The Hay surname
The Hay name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1811 to 1857
most named in the 1810s
- Court minutes 1811
- Marriages 1812
- Wills 1822
- Deeds 1857
- In the chronology
- 1865 to 1959 2 people in 40 entries, most in the 1860s
- Married into
- Shepperd 1 · the marriages
- Search beyond these records
- Hay 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 Hay there)
- Hay 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.
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Hay, Ruth 5 entries, 1935–1959
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- 1935–1940: Founding the University's public health program, 1935–1940
- 1940: Margery Lord becomes the first woman student in public health at Chapel Hill
- 1940: Rosenau recruits Ruth Hay from Berkeley to head a new Department of Public Health Nursing
- June 9, 1942: Twenty public health nurses graduate from the University
- 1959: Margaret Dolan succeeds Ruth Hay as head of Public Health Nursing
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Hay, Thomas H. 35 entries, 1865–1868
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- August 1865–December 1868: The Freedmen’s Bureau at Hillsborough, 1865–1868
- December 31, 1868: The Bureau closes its Hillsborough office as Lt. Thomas H. Hay rejoins his regiment
- July 1868: The Bureau distributes 5,620 pounds of corn and 836 pounds of bacon among Orange County's destitute
- April to October 1868: The Bureau agent orders a Mebaneville landowner to pay Jordan White for railroad cordwood
- June to October 1868: The Bureau sends sick freedmen from Hillsborough to its Salisbury hospital until it stops taking patients
- July 1868: Freedpeople at Cedar Grove put up a school house and win Bureau rent for it
- July 15 to August 15, 1868: Chapel Hill freedmen seek Bureau aid for a building that Lt. Hay judges is meant as a Baptist church
- October to November 1868: A freedmen's school opens at Cotton Run and closes when its teacher resigns
- September 25, 1868: Esther Anderson arrives to teach Hillsborough's freedmen's school
- November to December 1868: Freedmen around Hillsborough ask about railroad work near Raleigh
- August to December 1868: Freedpeople at Bains put up a school house on their own land
- August 1868: Freedpeople at Durham's Station buy land and build a school house
- first week of October 1868: Georgianna Rumbley opens the freedmen's school at Cedar Grove
- October to December 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay cancels apprenticeships made by an earlier Bureau officer and returns children to their parents
- November 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay counts about 330 day pupils in Orange County's freedmen's schools
- December 26, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay tries to talk teacher Robert G. Fitzgerald out of running for clerk
- May 20, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay finds about 150 people in Orange County in need of relief
- May 23 to July 11, 1868: Thomas H. Hay's freedmen's court at Hillsborough decides Orange cases
- December 17-18, 1868: Major Hay orders Sheriff John Turner to return two Black children held by a white man
- June 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay praises Hillsborough's Howard Freedmen's School and asks the Philadelphia Friends for more teachers
- June 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports twenty cases settled in June and freedmen's schools closed for the summer
- May 25-30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports on the May term of the Orange County court and its cases against Black defendants
- July 31, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports ten freedmen's day schools in Orange and Person, nearly all with Black teachers
- August to November 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports threats to turn freedmen off farms for their politics
- July 31, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports whites refusing Bureau summonses since the state's return to the Union
- May 18, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay is ordered to Hillsborough to take charge of Orange and Person counties
- May to October 1868: The Hillsborough Bureau office dockets about sixty complaints in the summer of 1868
- October 1868: Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's
- July 1-6, 1868: A Chapel Hill magistrate and his son beat Mills Saunders while he is held on a civil warrant
- October 1868: New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers
- October 17, 1868: Freedpeople at New Hope rent a building and hire a teacher for a school
- September 2, 1868: Raleigh ends the Hillsborough Bureau clerk's post, citing the Bureau's coming close
- August 31, 1868: Four people are held in the Orange County jail for the killing of Smith Green
- July 28, 1868: St. Mark's district residents tell the Bureau that county relief has failed
- October 1868: Trustees open a freedmen's school at a chapel near Chapel Hill
In the historical records 6 records
1 deeds, 1 marriages, 3 court minutes 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. Hay marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1810s
- 1811Court minutesDeed, James Polston to Edward McClosky, proved by Is Hay.
- 1812MarriagesMarriage bond: David Hay and Susan Shepperd
1820s
- 1822WillsWill of William Sheppard
