Orange County Indexed
The Prosser surname
The Prosser name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records.
- In the records
- 1779 to 1803
most named in the 1790s
- Tax lists 1779
- Deeds 1794–1803
- Court minutes 1795–1797
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Little River (4), Rock Creek (1)
- Often named with
- Cain 2
- Spellings to try
- Prosper, Proser, Prossey
- Search beyond these records
- Prosser 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 Prosser there)
- Prosser 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 10 records
6 deeds, 3 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Prosser James
1790s
- 1794DeedsJames Prosser to John Cain, 18 October 1794
- 1795Court minutesDeed, James Prosser to Jno Caine, proved by Joseph Brittain.
- 1796DeedsUNC to James Prosser, 1 May 1796
- 1797DeedsNorth Carolina to James Prosser, 30 June 1797
- 1797Court minutesThe court ordered a land warrant issued to James Prosser on his recorded entry.
