Orange County Indexed
The Maxwell surname
The Maxwell name in Orange County Indexed: 11 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1765 to 1811
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1765–1771
- Wills 1768–1774
- Court minutes 1793–1811
- In the chronology
- 1875 to 1934 2 people in 2 entries, most in the 1870s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Cobbs Creek (1), N Hico Creek (1), Hico Creek (1), Amhurst Co., Va (1), Rockfish settlement (1)
- Spellings to try
- Maxwel
- Search beyond these records
- Maxwell 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 Maxwell there)
- Maxwell 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 chronology 2 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 the historical records 11 records
4 deeds, 5 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
1770s
1790s
1810s
- 1811Court minutesThe court appointed Jesse Clark as road overseer.
Undated
- DeedsFrancis Brandon to Mary Maxwell, September 1752
- Court minutesNamed workers were assigned the road from John Roberson’s shop toward Solomon Debow’s and McCoy’s mill under William Lea.
- Court minutesRobert Maxwell and company brought an action on the case against William Ware.
- Court minutesFourteen merchants and agents were cited to appear concerning overseas trade; John Hogan and Nath’l. Rochester appeared and took the alle…
