Orange County Indexed
The McGown surname
The McGown name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1831
most named in the 1750s
- Tax lists 1755
- Court minutes 1766
- Wills 1770
- Marriages 1831
- Married into
- Sims 1 · the marriages
- Spellings to try
- McCown, McGowen, McGowan, McGoan
- Search beyond these records
- McGown 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 McGown there)
- McGown 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 marriages, 8 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. McGown marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: James McGown Senr
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: James McGown Junr
1760s
- 1766Court minutesJames McGown became overseer from Enoe River to Alex. Mebane’s.
1770s
- 1770WillsWill of James McGown
1830s
- 1831MarriagesMarriage bond: Herbert Sims and Rachel McGown
Undated
- Court minutesJohn McGown proceeded against Joshua Stroud.
- Court minutesEleven jurors were appointed to open the road from Isaac Lowe’s mill through Alexander Mebane’s mill to Woody’s ferry.
- Court minutesJames McGown replaced Henry Willson as road overseer.
- Court minutesJames McGown replaced James Mason as road overseer.
- Court minutesRobert Witty brought a petition against James McGown.
- Court minutesMary Humphries proceeded against Jane McGown.
- Court minutesWitnesses were summoned in Ned’s murder prosecution; the jury acquitted him. Ned was enslaved by Thomas Holloway (Samuel Peelor, Benjamin…
