Orange County Indexed
The Pleasants surname
The Pleasants name in Orange County Indexed: 16 historical records and 5 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1801 to 1892
most named in the 1810s
- Marriages 1801–1892
- Court minutes 1802–1817
- Records of enslaved people 1816
- Deeds 1816–1842
- Wills 1840
- In the chronology
- 1841 to 1886 5 people in 5 entries, most in the 1850s
- Married into
- Goodwin 1, Hedgepeth 1, Lefever 1, Whithead 1, Wilkins 1, Roseman 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Bradshaw 2, Grant 2
- Spellings to try
- Pleasant, Pleasents
- Search beyond these records
- Pleasants 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 Pleasants there)
- Pleasants 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.
- Pleasants, Alexander 1 entry, 1869
- Pleasants, R. F. 1 entry, 1851
- Pleasants, Robert 1 entry, 1841
- Pleasants, Robert F. 1 entry, 1856
- Pleasants, Robert Freeman 1 entry, 1886
In the historical records 16 records
3 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 6 marriages, 5 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. Pleasants marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1800s
1810s
- 1816DeedsThomas Pleasants to William Bradshaw, 3 September 1816
- 1816Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Thomas Pleasants to William Bradshaw, 3 September 1816
- 1816Court minutesDeed, Thomas Pleasants to George Foust, proved by Joseph Clendenin.
- 1817Court minutesJacob Albright and the other named men were appointed to patrol the captain’s district.
1830s
1840s
1860s
1880s
1890s
- 1892MarriagesMarriage license: H W Lefever and Lovey Pleasants
Undated
- Court minutesThe court attached James Grant’s potential recovery from Augustus Benton, allowed time to determine its amount, and ordered published not…
- Court minutesGarnishee John Umstead denied holding James Grant’s property, owing him money or knowing his debtors in Samuel Pleasants and sons’ attach…
