Orange County Indexed
The Read surname
The Read name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1857
most named in the 1770s
- Tax lists 1755–1779
- Deeds 1768–1857
- Wills 1780
- Marriages 1832–1856
- In the chronology
- 1966 1 person in 1 entry
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Camp Creek (1), Buffalo Branch (1), Lambert Reeds Spring Branch (1), Hartwood (?) (1), Parish of Lochmabin (1), Shire of Annandale in Scotland (1), City of Lincoln (1), Kingdom of Great Britain (1)
- Married into
- Nash 1, Ringstaff 1 · the marriages
- Search beyond these records
- Read 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 Read there)
- Read 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 1 person
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.
In the historical records 8 records
3 deeds, 2 marriages, 2 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. Read marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: John Read
1760s
1770s
1780s
- 1780WillsWill of William Johnston
1830s
- 1832MarriagesMarriage bond: Isaac Read and Susan M Nash
