Orange County Indexed
The Oliver surname
The Oliver name in Orange County Indexed: 31 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1762 to 1910
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1762–1768
- Court minutes 1764–1800
- Wills 1768
- Marriages 1848–1910
- In the chronology
- 1946 2 people in 1 entry
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Great Alamance Creek (1), Mebane (1), Hillsborough (1), Beaver Creek (1)
- Married into
- Currie 1, Mebane 1, Morton 1, Parker 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Sample 3, Thompson 3, McCulloch 2, Lea 2, Harris 2
- Spellings to try
- Olive
- Search beyond these records
- Oliver 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 Oliver there)
- Oliver 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.
In the historical records 31 records
8 deeds, 4 marriages, 17 court minutes and 2 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. Oliver marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
- 1762DeedsJohn Oliver to Abraham Hilton, November 1762
- 1763DeedsJohn Oliver to Samuel Oliver, February 1763
- 1763DeedsHenry McCulloch to John Oliver, May 1763
- 1763DeedsHenry Eustice McCulloh to Samuel Oliver, August 1763
- 1764Court minutesThe court convened with justices James Allison, John Sample and John Oliver present.
- 1764Court minutesCommissions as justices of the peace were issued to twenty-four named men.
- 1764Court minutesJohn Sample and John Oliver qualified as justices and took their seats.
- 1765DeedsSamuel Oliver to Jeremiah Fields, May 1765
- 1765DeedsSamuel Oliver to Henry Eustice McCulloch, August 1765
- 1765Court minutesThe court convened with justices Tyrie Harris, Thomas Hart, John Lea and 2 others present.
- 1765Court minutesTyrie Harris, William Lea, John Oliver, John Sample and Lawrence Thompson returned their tax lists.
- 1766Court minutesThe court convened with justices Tyrie Harris, Thomas Lloyd, Lawrence Thompson and 4 others present.
- 1768DeedsJohn Oliver & Mary Oliver to Peter Courtney, 21 June 1768
- 1768DeedsJohn Pryor & Laurence Thompson & John Patterson & Andrew Mitchell & John McGee & Thomas Lloyd & William Lee & Richard Parker & Tyree Harris & David Hart & Thomas Hart & John King & John Brantley & Richard Simpson & Robert Lytle & John Oliver & Thomas Hines & John Lee & William Thompson & William Johnston & James Thackston & John Payne & George Allen & Alexander Mebane Jr & Nathaniel Jones & Charles Crawford as Justices of the Peace for Orange County to William Johnston, 4 March 1768
- 1768WillsWill of Peter (x) Poor
- 1768WillsWill of Isaac (x) Greason
1800s
1840s
1870s
- 1872MarriagesMarriage license: Jordan Oliver and Caroline Mebane
1880s
- 1885MarriagesMarriage license: Walter Currie and Susan Oliver
1910s
- 1910MarriagesMarriage license: John S Oliver and Addie Parker
Undated
- Court minutesTwelve men were appointed to lay out and open the road from Peter Nowey’s to William Wiley’s.
- Court minutesTwelve men were appointed to open the road from Peter Noe’s to William Willey’s and report.
- Court minutesGarnishee John Oliver swore that he held five shillings and sevenpence belonging to Nicholas Pundrick.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of James Wood granted to Elizabeth Wood; sureties John Oliver and John Powell.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Hugh Laughlin granted to Mary Laughlin; sureties John Oliver and Wm. Laughlin.
- Court minutesJohn Oliver received permission to operate an ordinary.
- Court minutesPeter Dear and John Oliver recorded marks.
- Court minutesJohn Ritenour became guardian of Peter Harmon and Paul Harmon on a £150 bond, with John Oliver and John Graves as bondsmen.
- Court minutesJohn Oliver returned his tax list.
- Court minutesThe court resumed after half an hour with four named justices present.
