Orange County Indexed
The Pierce surname
The Pierce name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records and 4 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1765 to 1848
most named in the 1840s
- Deeds 1765
- Court minutes 1797–1800
- Wills 1818
- Marriages 1842–1848
- In the chronology
- 1923 to 1971 4 people in 6 entries, most in the 1920s
- Married into
- Carrington 1, Jones 1 · the marriages
- Search beyond these records
- Pierce 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 Pierce there)
- Pierce 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 4 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.
- Pierce, A. B. 1 entry, 1925
- Pierce, A. G. 1 entry, 1923
- Pierce, George 2 entries, 1962–1968
- Pierce, Herbert 2 entries, 1971
In the historical records 12 records
1 deeds, 2 marriages, 8 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. Pierce marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1790s
- 1797Court minutesDeed, Moses Pierce to Jno Hughs, proved by Sam’l Browning.
1800s
1810s
- 1818WillsWill of William McPherson
1840s
- 1842MarriagesMarriage bond: Calvin Jones and Mahala Pierce
- 1848MarriagesMarriage bond: Jesse Pierce and Margaret Carrington
Undated
- Court minutesJohn Pierce brought an action on the case against Thomas Wiley.
- Court minutesNamed men were appointed to lay out the road from the Rowan line opposite Frazier’s Road toward Cross Creek.
- Court minutesWindsor Pierce replaced John Carson as constable.
- Court minutesJonathan Lindley received damages and costs against David Pierce.
- Court minutesJurors valued the bond, rejected payment and setoff and awarded Oliver and N Pierce principal and interest against James Mason.
- Court minutesJurors rejected payment and setoff and awarded Oliver and Nathan Pierce damages against Sam Hopkins as Sam’l Love’s administrator.
