Orange County Indexed
The McGowen surname
The McGowen name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records.
- In the records
- 1764
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1764
- Often named with
- Stroud 3
- Spellings to try
- McGown, McGowan, McCowen
- Search beyond these records
- McGowen 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 McGowen there)
- McGowen 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 12 records
1 deeds and 11 court minutes, 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
Undated
- Court minutesA road was ordered from the county boundary through the courthouse and Pine Foard to James McGowen’s old path, with five named overseers…
- Court minutesZachariah Headle replaced James McGowen as overseer under James Dickey.
- Court minutesThe court divided the listed taxables between Orange New Road and Trading Path and required delivery of the allocation to the clerk.
- Court minutesJames McGowen replaced Thomas Holden as road commissioner.
- Court minutesThe court selected six petit jurors.
- Court minutesGrand jurors Aaron Van Hook, Thomas Clark, Thomas Thompson and 15 others were sworn.
- Court minutesJohn McGowen proceeded against Joshua Stroud.
- Court minutesJohn McGowen and his unnamed wife proceeded against John Stroud.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of John Alberd granted to Jane Alberd; sureties Wm. Means (?) and James McGowen.
- Court minutesJohn McGowen and his unnamed wife proceeded against John Stroud.
- Court minutesJames Ryann received permission to operate an ordinary.
