Orange County Indexed
The Porter surname
The Porter name in Orange County Indexed: 45 historical records and 9 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1909
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1755–1767
- Tax lists 1755–1780
- Court minutes 1756–1791
- Wills 1770–1800
- Marriages 1814–1909
- In the chronology
- 1865 to 1986 9 people in 47 entries, most in the 1860s
- Married into
- Burnett 1, Holt 1, Hopkins 1, Raney 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Brashear 2, Dobbins 2, Hart 2, Patterson 2
- Spellings to try
- Potter, Pourter
- Search beyond these records
- Porter 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 Porter there)
- Porter 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 9 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.
- Porter, Clark 2 entries, 1957–1960
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Porter, F. Ross 4 entries, 1936–1960
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- 1936: The Berry Brick House leaves the Berry family after 131 years
- 1943: The McLartys sell the Berry Brick House to Mr. and Mrs. F. Ross Porter
- March 26, 1959: The General Assembly enlarges the Orange County Board of Education to five members
- August 15, 1960: Democrats name Delmar Brown to the Orange County Board of Education
- Porter, Gareth 1 entry, 1978
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Porter, Isaac 30 entries, 1865–1867
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- August 1865–December 1868: The Freedmen’s Bureau at Hillsborough, 1865–1868
- about December 1, 1866: A Black newspaper editor from Baltimore canvasses Hillsborough for subscribers
- November 1866: The Bureau disputes a coroner's verdict clearing C. C. Tinnen in the shooting of Bill Fuller
- April to September 1866: The Bureau office at Hillsborough tries freedpeople's claims against white residents
- June 1866: The Bureau office at Hillsborough reviews apprenticeships made by the Orange County court
- August 1866: Bureau headquarters declines to overturn a magistrate's judgment against a freedman
- July 13-18, 1866: The Freedmen's Bureau turns freedpeople's cases in Orange and Alamance over to the county courts
- May 31, 1866: Black residents of Hillsborough ask the Bureau to find teachers for their children
- November 1866 to August 1867: The Hillsborough Bureau office approves 62 labor contracts
- November 1866 to August 1867: The Hillsborough Bureau office hears about twenty freedpeople's claims for wages and crops
- November 1866 to July 1867: The Hillsborough Bureau office records nine attacks on freedpeople
- May 1866: Lieutenant Isaac Porter takes charge of the Freedmen's Bureau office at Hillsborough
- October 6, 1866: The Bureau's school superintendent seeks Quaker teachers for Chapel Hill and Bane's School House
- October 15, 1866: The Bureau office warns that Orange County provides only for its white poor
- November 20, 1866: Seventeen freedpeople at Hillsborough seek passage to a Mississippi plantation
- April 10 to May 18, 1867: The Bureau and James C. Turrentine distribute 150 bushels of corn to Orange County's poor
- July and August 1867: The Bureau office at Hillsborough draws corn and bacon for the destitute and proposes ending rations
- January 23 to February 5, 1867: The Bureau investigates reports that a Hillsborough freedmen's teacher was shot at and driven away
- October 1, 1867: The Bureau relieves Lt. Isaac Porter and puts Orange County under its Raleigh agent
- July 17, 1867: Cicero M. Faucett is confirmed as clerk of the Bureau office at Hillsborough
- April 1867 to July 1868: Freedpeople ask the Hillsborough Bureau office to recover children held by employers and former owners
- March to August 1867: Milly Johnson of Chapel Hill asks the Bureau to recover children taken from her in slavery
- February term, 1867: Orange County court binds out eight Black children as apprentices with the Bureau officer attending
- February 28, 1867: Orange County court has four Black people publicly whipped for stealing
- September 24, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter sends the Bureau his annual report for the sub-district of Orange
- May 13 to 15, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter recommends men to register Orange County's voters under the Reconstruction Acts
- April 24, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter reports that talk of land and houses is drawing freedpeople from their crops
- March 6, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter reports that the Bureau has issued no rations in Orange in a year
- March 30, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter reports four freedmen's schools running in Orange and the Hillsborough school closed
- June 26, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter takes charge of Orange and Person counties for the Bureau from Hillsborough
- Porter, Joe Ashby 2 entries, 1986
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Porter, Ross 4 entries, 1954–1959
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- February 7, 1954: The Rev. Lauton W. Pettit becomes rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
- November 25, 1958: Orange Democrats name Ross Porter to the county school board
- May 31, 1958: Orange Democrats renominate Sheriff Clayton and Senator Lanier in the primary
- January 5, 1959: Orange County school board agrees to send Person County pupils at Aycock back to Person
- Porter, Travis 1 entry, 1979
- Porter, W. C. 1 entry, 1960
- Porter, W. Travis 2 entries, 1986
In the historical records 45 records
6 deeds, 4 marriages, 30 court minutes, 3 tax list entries 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. Porter marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
1760s
- 1761Court minutesFifteen grand jurors were empanelled and sworn.
- 1761Court minutesFourteen named grand jurors were ordered fined for neglect.
- 1765DeedsHugh Porter to Adam Porter Jr, May 1765
- 1766DeedsEarl Granville to Hugh Porter, May 1766
- 1766DeedsHugh Porter to Jane Willson, August 1766
- 1766DeedsAnson Miller to George Porter, August 1766
- 1767DeedsVinerius Turner to Joseph Porter, May 1767
1770s
- 1770WillsWill of Robert Motherel
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Porter Christopher
1780s
1790s
1800s
- 1800WillsWill of Uriah Springer
1810s
- 1814MarriagesMarriage bond: Alamen Porter and Polly Holt
1830s
- 1831MarriagesMarriage bond: William Porter and Jane Burnett
1900s
- 1908MarriagesMarriage license: J M Porter and Blanche B Raney
- 1909MarriagesMarriage license: F G Porter and Susan E Hopkins
Undated
- Court minutesBill of Sale, Robert Brashear to Hugh Porter, proved by William Porter.
- Court minutesOthar Brashear brought an action on the case against William Porter.
- Court minutesHugh Porter replaced John Pittman as road commissioner.
- Court minutesHugh Porter proved a ten-pound Pennsylvania-currency account against James Gilchrist of Lancaster County.
- Court minutesThe record listed twenty-eight road commissioners (Thomas Holden, Hugh Porter, James Allison, Thomas Loyd).
- Court minutesCommissions as justices of the peace were recorded for the listed men.
- Court minutesJoseph Brown and Dunkin Lewis were each fined twenty pounds for failing to testify in Hugh Porter’s suit against John Bickerstaff.
- Court minutesGrand jurors Hugh Porter, Robert Taylor, John Taylor and 16 others were empanelled and sworn.
- Court minutesThomas Donalson proceeded against Henry Porter and James Thompson.
- Court minutesA jury was appointed to open the road from Hart’s Road past Saxon’s mill toward the road from Runnels Cabins.
- Court minutesNamed men were ordered to open the Hogan’s Creek road toward Roun Oak Road under Wm. Ware.
- Court minutesFifteen grand jurors were sworn with Solomon Debow as foreman.
- Court minutesPatrick Porter brought a petition against Benjamin Phillips.
- Court minutesPatrick Porter was bound to keep the peace with his wife Susannah Porter and others for one year.
- Court minutesThirteen men were appointed to lay out the road from Hart’s Road through Haw River Mill and Jno. Powell’s to Lindley’s Road.
- Court minutesEleven jurors were appointed to lay out a road from Lewis Green’s ford on Dann River to Boyd’s mill on Haw River.
- Court minutesJohn Fuller Lane brought an action on the case against Patrick Porter.
- Court minutesThomas Dobbins brought an action on the case against Patrick Porter.
- Court minutesNathaniel Hart brought an action on the case against Patrick Porter.
- Court minutesTwelve jurors were appointed to continue the road from Finley’s to Allison’s road, with William Porter and Robert Wells as overseers.
- Court minutesThomas Hart brought a petition against Hugh Porter.
- Court minutesThomas Dobbins brought an action on the case against Patrick Porter.
- Court minutesWilliam Nunn brought a debt claim against Patrick Porter.
- Court minutesThe court appointed Hardress Hawkins, John Long and Jno Wheeler to audit Dav’d Patterson’s guardianship accounts for Margaret Porter.
- Court minutesDeed, George Riggs to John Riggs, proved by Depositions of William Waggoner & Fredrick Lipham.
