Orange County Indexed
The Ridge surname
The Ridge name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records.
- In the records
- 1782 to 1792
most named in the 1780s
- Wills 1782
- Court minutes 1792
- Spellings to try
- Ridle, Ridgen
- Search beyond these records
- Ridge 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 Ridge there)
- Ridge 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 8 records
7 court minutes 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. Search the name in every collection
1780s
- 1782WillsWill of Peter (x) Noe
1790s
Undated
- Court minutesThe sheriff was ordered to summon Levi Hall, Isaac Hall, Jno Grayham and 30 others for the August term.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire with attendance annotations.
- Court minutesThe court swore the grand jury.
- Court minutesJoseph Ridge was apprenticed to Nathan Horneday for wagon making until age twenty.
- Court minutesThe court recorded James Thompson, Thomas Bradshaw, Samuel Steward and 27 others for jury service.
- Court minutesJno Warren recovered damages and costs against Adam Marley and Thomas Vincent.
