Orange County Indexed
The Kent surname
The Kent name in Orange County Indexed: 7 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1799 to 1843
most named in the 1790s
- Wills 1799
- Deeds 1817–1843
- In the chronology
- 1931 to 1994 2 people in 2 entries, most in the 1930s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Haw River (2), Travis Creek (2), Peter Tickles Spring Branch (1), Travis Branch (1)
- Often named with
- Swisher 2, Gains 2, Pinkerton 2
- Search beyond these records
- Kent 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 Kent there)
- Kent 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.
In the historical records 7 records
4 deeds, 2 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. Search the name in every collection
1790s
- 1799WillsWill of Edward Gains
