Orange County Indexed
The Person surname
The Person name in Orange County Indexed: 24 historical records, 2 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1764 to 1865
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1764–1819
- Wills 1775
- Court minutes 1786–1808
- Marriages 1824–1865
- In the chronology
- 1771 to 1796 2 people in 14 entries, most in the 1770s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 1 person, born 1733
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Hillsborough (3), Flat River (3), Dials Creek (2), Eno River (2), Haw River (2), Hico Creek (1), King Street (1), Margaret Lane (1)
- Married into
- Henderson 1, Norwood 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Carrington 2
- People with a page here
- Thomas Person
- Spellings to try
- Pearson, Persons, Pierson, Peron
- Search beyond these records
- Person 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 Person there)
- Person 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.
- Person, Thomas 13 entries, 1771–1796
- Person, Thomas 1 entry, 1796
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.
- Person Family family, 2 works
- Person, Thomas, 1733-1800 1 work
In the historical records 24 records
15 deeds, 2 marriages, 5 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. Person marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1770s
1780s
- 1782DeedsNorth Carolina to Thomas Person, 25 October 1782
- 1783DeedsHenry McCoy to Thomas Person, 15 October 1783
- 1786Court minutesSurveyors were appointed in Samuel Strudwick’s land dispute against Laurence Thompson and others, with a report due next court.
- 1787DeedsJoseph Allison to Thomas Person, 10 October 1787
- 1789DeedsThomas Person to John Carrington, 1 January 1789
1790s
- 1792DeedsJohn Sturges to Thomas Person, 17 October 1792
- 1793DeedsWilliam Thomas Person to John Carrington, 1793
- 1798DeedsNorth Carolina to Thomas Person, 13 June 1798
- 1799DeedsThomas Person to Henry Faucett, 19 April 1799
- 1799Court minutesTho Person’s appeal against Tho Reden ended in a nonsuit.
- 1799Court minutesBond to David English, proved by James Baldridge.
1800s
1810s
1820s
1860s
- 1865MarriagesMarriage bond: Manly Person and Eliza Norwood
