Skip to content
Orange County Public Library (opens the library’s website in a new tab)

Orange County Indexed

The Payne surname

The Payne name in Orange County Indexed: 36 historical records, 11 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.

In the records
1753 to 1874 most named in the 1770s
  • Deeds 1753–1873
  • Wills 1774–1784
  • Tax lists 1779
  • Court minutes 1783–1811
  • Marriages 1784–1874
In the chronology
1768 to 1988 11 people in 13 entries, most in the 1880s
In books and archives
1 person
Places in its deeds and wills
Whitteds Creek (2), Hillsborough (2), Flat River (2), Haw River (1), Moons Creek (1), Mebane (1), Richland Spring Creek (1), Deep Creek (1)
Married into
Smith 2, Efland 1, Justus 1, Mahan 1, Nicholson 1, Rogers 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Granville 3, Thompson 2, Moore 2
People with a page here
David Payne
Spellings to try
Paine, Payene, Payce, Paynes
Search beyond these records

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 11 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 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 36 records

14 deeds, 8 marriages, 7 court minutes, 5 tax list entries 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. Payne marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

1750s

1760s

1770s

1780s

1790s

1800s

1810s

1820s

1870s

Undated

Other surnames beginning with P · All surnames · People

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026