Orange County Indexed
The Merrit surname
The Merrit name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records.
- In the records
- 1768 to 1810
most named in the 1780s
- Deeds 1768
- Court minutes 1788–1810
- Spellings to try
- Merritt, Meritt, Merret, Merit, Murrit
- Search beyond these records
- Merrit 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 Merrit there)
- Merrit 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
1780s
- 1788Court minutesThe court appointed Sam’l Sheppard overseer of the Rhodes–Comers road and assigned fourteen named workers.
- 1789Court minutesThe court ordered sale of John Merrit’s 200 acres under Taylor’s execution to satisfy Hooper’s judgment and costs.
- 1789Court minutesDeed, John Morgan to Wm Merrit, proved by Presley George.
1790s
1810s
Undated
- Court minutesA traverse issue was recorded in the Crown’s prosecution of Benjamin Merrit.
- Court minutesA nonsuit was entered in Wm Trice’s debt action against Wm Merrit.
- Court minutesThe court appointed Dan’l Watson to replace Shepperd on the Rhodes–Comers road and assigned the named residents and their laborers.
- Court minutesThe court apprenticed Elizabeth Merrit to Robert Faucett for instruction in spinning.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Leonard Partin granted to William H Merrit; sureties William Barbee.
