Orange County Indexed
The Melton surname
The Melton name in Orange County Indexed: 13 historical records.
- In the records
- 1759 to 1851
most named in the 1790s
- Wills 1759
- Records of enslaved people 1799
- Deeds 1799–1847
- Marriages 1804–1851
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Dry Creek (2), Little Alamance Creek (2), Littie Alamance Creek (1)
- Married into
- Underwood 1, Shoecraft 1, Whittaker 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Tapp 3, Stratton 2, Parker 2, Sellers 2
- Spellings to try
- Milton, Molton
- Search beyond these records
- Melton 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 Melton there)
- Melton 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 13 records
4 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 3 marriages, 4 court minutes 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. Melton marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1759WillsWill of Robert Melton
1790s
- 1799DeedsRobert Melton to Abner Tapp, 18 January 1799
- 1799DeedsGeorge Clarke to Ariel Melton, 29 January 1799
- 1799Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Robert Melton to Abner Tapp, 18 January 1799
1800s
1820s
- 1821MarriagesMarriage bond: Matthias Melton and Betsy Shoecraft
