Orange County Indexed
The Penn surname
The Penn name in Orange County Indexed: 11 historical records, 1 person in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1762 to 1859
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1762–1796
- Court minutes 1785–1796
- Marriages 1859
- In the chronology
- 1767 to 1780 1 person in 9 entries, most in the 1770s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 1 person
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Little River (1)
- Married into
- Leathers 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Taylor 4, Hart 2
- People with a page here
- John Penn, John Penn
- Search beyond these records
- Penn 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 Penn there)
- Penn 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 1 person
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.
- Penn, John 9 entries, 1767–1780
In books and archives 2 headings
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.
- Penn family family, 1 work
- Penn, John, 1740 or 1741-1788 8 works
In the historical records 11 records
3 deeds, 1 marriages and 7 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Penn marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1780s
- 1785Court minutesThe same jury heard John Penn’s case against Jas. and Thos. Pickard.
1790s
1850s
- 1859MarriagesMarriage notice: James C. Leathers and M. Lou. Penn
Undated
- Court minutesAbraham Penn and William Penn qualified as undersheriffs.
- Court minutesGabriel Penn brought a debt claim against John Williams and others.
- Court minutesDeed, Richard Taylor to Wm Penn, proved by William Norwood.
- Court minutesWm Penn recovered the unpaid bond balance and damages against Jno Taylor after a payment credit and rejection of setoff.
- Court minutesThe court approved Jno Umstead and Sam’l Benton as John Taylor’s sureties for appeals in Wm Penn’s and Geo Darden’s actions.
