Orange County Indexed
The Major surname
The Major name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records.
- In the records
- 1763 to 1811
most named in the 1800s
- Records of enslaved people 1763
- Wills 1784–1802
- Court minutes 1808
- Deeds 1808–1811
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Dinwiddie Co., Va (1)
- Often named with
- Duke 2, Perry 2
- Spellings to try
- Manor, Majors
- Search beyond these records
- Major 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 Major there)
- Major 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 8 records
2 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 3 court minutes and 2 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
1760s
- 1763Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Booth Perry to Bernard Major, 17 June 1763
