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Orange County Indexed

The Hunt surname

The Hunt name in Orange County Indexed: 205 historical records, 24 people in the chronology and 3 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1767 to 1910 most named in the 1810s
  • Wills 1767–1826
  • Tax lists 1779–1790
  • Deeds 1780–1869
  • Marriages 1783–1910
  • Court minutes 1786–1818
  • Records of enslaved people 1786–1823
In the chronology
1775 to 1998 24 people in 136 entries, most in the 1970s
In books and archives
1 family heading and 2 people, born 1729 to 1924
Places in its deeds and wills
Hillsborough (7), Chapel Hill (7), Flat River (6), Morgan Creek (4), Little River (3), King Street (3), Dry Creek (2), Haw River (2)
Married into
Walker 3, Bacon 2, Adams 1, Baldwin 1, Brockwell 1, Cate 1, Cates 1, Collier 1, Dority 1, Fowler 1, Halliburton 1, Holesonback 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Cain 9, Carrington 9, Taylor 7, Horner 5, Harris 5, Lytle 5, Jones 5, Richards 4, Tatom 4, Cate 4, Watson 4, Duke 3
People with a page here
Douglass Hunt, James B. Hunt, Memucan Hunt, William Lanier Hunt
Search beyond these records

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 24 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.

In books and archives 3 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

In the historical records 205 records

53 deeds, 9 records of enslaved people, 28 marriages, 104 court minutes, 5 tax list entries 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. Hunt marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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