Orange County Indexed
The Laxton surname
The Laxton name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1764
most named in the 1760s
- Tax lists 1755
- Deeds 1761–1764
- Often named with
- Granville 2, McCoy 2
- Spellings to try
- Laxon, Layton
- Search beyond these records
- Laxton 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 Laxton there)
- Laxton 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 10 records
4 deeds, 5 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, 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
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: Thomas Laxton
1760s
Undated
- Court minutesRobert Harris, Zach. Headle and Thomas Saxton or Laxton registered livestock marks.
- Court minutesThomas Laxton and Samuel Cobb proved witness attendance in Taylor’s suit against Reynolds.
- Court minutesJohn Steel brought a petition against Thomas Laxton.
- Court minutesThomas Laxton was authorized to build a public gristmill on Country line Creek, where he owned land on both banks.
- Court minutesThe mill associated with Thomas Laxton and Son and Neil McCoy was ordered established as a public mill.
