Orange County Indexed

The Potts surname

The Potts name in Orange County Indexed: 24 historical records.

In the records

1755 to 1908 most named in the 1830s

Tax lists 1755
Deeds 1779–1867
Court minutes 1780
Marriages 1799–1908
Wills 1830

Places in its deeds and wills

Bolin Creek (3), Eno River (2), Chapel Hill (1)

Married into

Anderson 1, Blackwood 1, Hester 1, Hutchens 1, King 1, Maddry 1, Madry 1 · the marriages

Often named with

Patterson 4, Chapman 2, Johnston 2, Rochester 2, Taylor 2, Nichols 2

Spellings to try

Pitts

Search beyond these records

Potts 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 Potts there)
Potts 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 historical records 24 records

7 deeds, 7 marriages, 8 court minutes, 1 tax list entries 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. Potts marriages in full · Search the name in every collection