Orange County Indexed
The Rea surname
The Rea name in Orange County Indexed: 17 historical records.
- In the records
- 1767 to 1797
most named in the 1760s
- Wills 1767–1774
- Tax lists 1780
- Court minutes 1784
- Deeds 1797
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Haw River (1), Little River (1), Parish of Saint Matthew (1)
- Often named with
- Rogers 2, Massey 2
- Search beyond these records
- Rea 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 Rea there)
- Rea 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 17 records
1 deeds, 12 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 3 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. Search the name in every collection
1760s
- 1767WillsWill of Adam Roger
- 1768WillsWill of John McCoy
1770s
- 1774WillsWill of William Rea
1780s
1790s
Undated
- Court minutesThe sixteen named grand jurors qualified.
- Court minutesJohn Dunnagan replaced William Rea as constable.
- Court minutesThirty named jurors were appointed to attend next court.
- Court minutesFourteen named jurors were appointed for the next Superior Court on October first.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Jos. Lloyd granted to Jos. Tinney; sureties Robt. Rea.
- Court minutesJames Ball became overseer from Cain Creek to Meadow Meeting House, with hands Jos. Stalsworth, Wm. Rea, Jno. Rea and 22 others assigned.
- Court minutesDavid Mebane became overseer from Meadow Meeting House to Col. Alex. Mebane’s, with hands Alex Mebane, Sam, John Nelson and 18 others ass…
- Court minutesThe court apprenticed James Massey to Robt. Rea.
- Court minutesDeed of Gift, Robt. Rea to Tence & James Massey.
- Court minutesA jury was sworn in Jno. Collins’s case against administrator Arch’d. Boreland.
- Court minutesA jury was sworn in Robt. Campbell’s case against Jno. ODannel.
