Orange County Indexed
The Mathews surname
The Mathews name in Orange County Indexed: 14 historical records.
- In the records
- 1752 to 1796
most named in the 1750s
- Deeds 1752–1796
- Court minutes 1753
- Wills 1764
- Tax lists 1779–1780
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Cane Creek (1)
- Spellings to try
- Matthews, Mathew
- Search beyond these records
- Mathews 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 Mathews there)
- Mathews 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 14 records
6 deeds, 5 court minutes, 2 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
1750s
- 1752DeedsZachariah Martin to Thomas Mathews, June 1752
- 1753DeedsJohn Sidwell to Thomas Mathews, March 1753
- 1753DeedsThomas Mathews to John Sidwel, 1753
- 1753Court minutesThe court impaneled grand jurors Henry Bedingfield, Benjamin Martin, James McAlester and 10 others.
- 1755DeedsThomas Mathews to Henry May[n]or, September 1755
1760s
- 1764WillsWill of William Forbis
- 1767DeedsEzekiel Shaddocks to Charles Mathews, May 1767
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Mathews James
1780s
1790s
Undated
- Court minutesGrand jurors Henry Bedingfield, Abraham Whitworth, John Dunnagan and 12 others were impaneled and sworn.
- Court minutesSamuel Benton brought an action on the case against Thomas Mathews.
- Court minutesThomas Mathews was ordered into the stocks for fifteen minutes for contempt of court.
- Court minutesThe court apprenticed John Jones to Phillip Mathews until age 21.
