Orange County Indexed
The Keys surname
The Keys name in Orange County Indexed: 13 historical records.
- In the records
- 1783 to 1799
most named in the 1790s
- Court minutes 1783–1799
- Tax lists 1790
- Wills 1793
- Deeds 1794
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Hillsborough (1)
- Often named with
- Phillips 3
- Search beyond these records
- Keys 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 Keys there)
- Keys 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 13 records
1 deeds, 10 court minutes, 1 tax list entries 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
1780s
- 1783Court minutesThe court apprenticed Isaac Morrow to Jos. Keys until age 21.
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: James H. Keys (Hillsborough town District)
- 1791Court minutesTho Pratts’s executors won damages and costs against Brooks and Fosset.
- 1791Court minutesThe jury found James Carson’s bond unpaid and awarded Williams and Patterson damages and costs.
- 1793WillsDeed: Joshua (x) Horn to Jesse James and others
- 1794DeedsJames K Keys to James Phillips, 2 August 1794
- 1799Court minutesCornfite[?] and Dunkin won damages and costs against James H Keys after jurors found no payment.
Undated
- Court minutesWill of Joel Brooks, proved by William Brown, Charles Keys and Charles Stout, Quakers.
- Court minutesJoseph Keys brought a debt claim against James Phillips and others.
- Court minutesJoseph Keys brought a debt claim against James Phillips and others.
- Court minutesThe constitutional oath was taken by John Williams and four other attorneys.
- Court minutesJames and Thomas Dean won damages against James H Keys, but a new trial was granted.
- Court minutesThe jury upheld John Taylor’s bond and recorded a payment finding; an appeal was granted with James Keys and Samuel Benton as sureties.
