Orange County Indexed
The Peterson surname
The Peterson name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records and 5 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1766 to 1886
most named in the 1790s
- Wills 1766
- Deeds 1791–1794
- Marriages 1855–1886
- In the chronology
- 1964 to 1994 5 people in 7 entries, most in the 1970s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Stinking Quarter Creek (1), Spoons Creek (1), Haw River (1)
- Married into
- Bass 1, Minor 1 · the marriages
- Spellings to try
- Patterson, Pearson, Person, Paterson, Pierson, Peters
- Search beyond these records
- Peterson 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 Peterson there)
- Peterson 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 5 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.
- Peterson, Chris 2 entries, 1971–1981
- Peterson, Harper 2 entries, 1972
- Peterson, Marilyn 1 entry, 1964
- Peterson, Todd 1 entry, 1994
- Peterson, Twyla 1 entry, 1987
In the historical records 6 records
2 deeds, 2 marriages, 1 court minutes and 1 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. Peterson marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1790s
1850s
- 1855MarriagesMarriage bond: Young Bass and Martha J Peterson
1880s
- 1886MarriagesMarriage license: S C Peterson and Fanny Minor
