Orange County Indexed
The McSwain surname
The McSwain name in Orange County Indexed: 7 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1782 to 1792
most named in the 1780s
- Marriages 1782
- Court minutes 1782–1787
- Deeds 1782–1792
- In the chronology
- 1983 1 person in 1 entry
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Haw River (3), Cane Creek (2)
- Married into
- Elmore 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Moore 3, Ellis 2, Davis 2
- Search beyond these records
- McSwain 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 McSwain there)
- McSwain 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 1 person
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 7 records
3 deeds, 1 marriages and 3 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. McSwain marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1780s
- 1782DeedsJohn Ellis to David McSwain, 4 January 1782
- 1782MarriagesMarriage bond: James McSwain and Ann Elmore
- 1782Court minutesDeed, John Ellis to David McSwain, proved by Benjamin Davis.
- 1782Court minutesAdministration of the estate of David Edwards granted to Richd. Williams; sureties David McSwain and Benjamin Davis.
- 1787DeedsDavid McSwain to John Moore, 23 January 1787
- 1787Court minutesDeed, David McSwain to John Moore, proved in court.
