Orange County Indexed
The Moss surname
The Moss name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records, 2 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1754 to 1845
most named in the 1750s
- Court minutes 1754
- Tax lists 1755
- Deeds 1770–1834
- Marriages 1813–1845
- Records of enslaved people 1834
- In the chronology
- 1904 to 1978 2 people in 16 entries, most in the 1910s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1866
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Gents Creek (1), Hico Creek (1)
- Married into
- Atkins 1, Barrick 1, Forbes 1 · the marriages
- People with a page here
- William Dygnum Moss
- Search beyond these records
- Moss 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 Moss there)
- Moss 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 2 people
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.
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Moss, Bill 6 entries, 1970–1978
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- 1970–1988: UNC, HEW and the desegregation consent decree, 1970–1988
- 1973–1984: The Minority Court and the guaranteed minority seats, 1973–1984
- March 21, 1977: The federal appeals court agrees to rehear the case against UNC's guaranteed minority seats
- March 11, 1977: UNC trustees choose an architect for the new central library and approve a larger Manning Drive parking deck
- September 16, 1977: UNC trustees endorse the revised desegregation plan, with two abstaining
- February 10, 1978: UNC-Chapel Hill trustees back the Board of Governors against HEW's desegregation demands
- Moss, William Dygnum 10 entries, 1904–1932
In books and archives 1 heading
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
In the historical records 12 records
2 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 3 marriages, 4 court minutes and 2 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Moss marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
1770s
1810s
- 1813MarriagesMarriage bond: Charles Barrick and Clarey Moss
1830s
- 1832MarriagesMarriage bond: Willie Moss and Pene Atkins
- 1834DeedsWilie Moss to James A Pratt trustee, 28 March 1834
- 1834Records of enslaved peopleDeed of trust: Wilie Moss to James A Pratt, 28 March 1834
1840s
- 1845MarriagesMarriage bond: William Henry Moss and Betsay Forbes
