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Orange County Indexed

The Lee surname

The Lee name in Orange County Indexed: 73 historical records, 22 people in the chronology and 6 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1756 to 1911 most named in the 1870s
  • Deeds 1756–1869
  • Wills 1768–1880
  • Tax lists 1779–1780
  • Marriages 1782–1911
  • Court minutes 1787–1815
  • Records of enslaved people 1803–1817
In the chronology
1781 to 1994 22 people in 263 entries, most in the 1970s
In books and archives
6 people, born 1731 to 1923
Places in its deeds and wills
Chapel Hill (3), Baptist Church (2), Haw River (1), Michael Holt’s Road (1), Ferry Road (1), Northeast Creek (1), Benjamin Barbee’s Spring Branch (1), Renchers Spring Branch (1)
Married into
Couch 2, Davis 2, Faucett 2, Rigsbee 2, Adkins 1, Avery 1, Bell 1, Bevill 1, Burch 1, Clark 1, Copley 1, Ellis 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Lindsay 3, Slade 2, Lindsey 2
People with a page here
Annie Carter Lee, Charles Lee, Howard N. Lee, J. Kenneth Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee
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 22 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 6 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 73 records

15 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 37 marriages, 14 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 3 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. Lee marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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