Orange County Indexed
The Linch surname
The Linch name in Orange County Indexed: 20 historical records.
- In the records
- 1780 to 1813
most named in the 1790s
- Tax lists 1780–1790
- Court minutes 1782–1795
- Marriages 1782–1808
- Wills 1804–1813
- Married into
- Atkinson 1, Bennett 1, Horner 1, Hutcheson 1, Reeves 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Morrow 2
- Spellings to try
- Lynch, Lunch
- Search beyond these records
- Linch 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 Linch there)
- Linch 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 20 records
5 marriages, 10 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. Linch marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1780s
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Darling Linch (St. Mary’s District)
- 1791MarriagesMarriage bond: James Linch and Jeane Hutcheson
- 1795Court minutesLewis Kirk won damages and costs against James Ball; the jury found neither payment nor setoff.
- 1795Court minutesLewis Kirk recovered in a second debt action against James Ball, with no payment or setoff found.
- 1799MarriagesMarriage bond: Jonas Linch and Anne Atkinson
1800s
- 1804WillsWill of Samuel Dickie
- 1804WillsWill of James (x) Linch
- 1808MarriagesMarriage bond: John Horner and Oliff Linch
- 1808MarriagesMarriage bond: John Linch and Ritta Bennett
1810s
- 1813WillsWill of John Linch, Sr.
Undated
- Court minutesThe court apprenticed Joseph Tate to David Linch until age 21.
- Court minutesJames Morrow replaced Thomas Linch as road overseer.
- Court minutesThirty named jurors were appointed to attend next court.
- Court minutesThe court apprenticed John Linch to William Parks for instruction in shoemaking.
- Court minutesThe court swore the grand jury.
- Court minutesJurors found the bond paid in Wm O’Neal’s action against Joseph Montgomery.
- Court minutesDeed, John Linch to Thomas Fitch, proved by Benj Burnside.
