Orange County Indexed
The Sanders surname
The Sanders name in Orange County Indexed: 21 historical records, 9 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1874
most named in the 1820s
- Tax lists 1755
- Deeds 1771–1868
- Wills 1776–1827
- Records of enslaved people 1790–1828
- Court minutes 1800–1813
- Marriages 1822–1874
- In the chronology
- 1859 to 2019 9 people in 34 entries, most in the 1970s
- In books and archives
- 1 person
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Dan River (1), Chapel Hill (1), Craig's Lane (1), Haw River (1), Jones Ferry Road (1)
- Married into
- Ashley 1, Cates 1, Howard 1, Terrell 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Carter 2, Taylor 2, Rencher 2
- People with a page here
- John L. Sanders
- Spellings to try
- Saunders
- Search beyond these records
- Sanders 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 Sanders there)
- Sanders 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 9 people
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.
- Sanders, Betty 1 entry, 1981
- Sanders, Betty B. 1 entry, 1978
- Sanders, Charles 2 entries, 1993
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Sanders, John 14 entries, 1959–1992
Show the 14 entries
- 1959: The law faculty and the Institute staff vote against merging the Institute into the law school
- July 1, 1962: Chancellor Aycock chooses John Sanders to succeed Albert Coates as director of the Institute
- November 1973 to 1979: Henry W. Lewis serves as director of the Institute of Government
- April 9, 1973: Chancellor Taylor refuses University Women for Affirmative Action a seat on the affirmative action committee
- about April 20, 1973: UNC sends its preliminary affirmative action proposals to President Friday
- April 21, 1980: Chapel Hill holds a memorial service for Allard K. Lowenstein in Memorial Hall
- April 10, 1987: UNC Faculty Council rejects a call for a study of how the UNC system is governed
- By July 9, 1987: Mayor James Wallace and Chancellor Christopher Fordham form a joint University-Town committee on the UNC land use plan
- 1987–1994: UNC’s land use plans, the Horace Williams tract and the joint town-University committee, 1987–1994
- March 29, 1989: UNC holds a memorial celebration for Albert Coates
- 1990–1993: The Student Body statues, 1990–1993
- November 29, 1990: Students debate a new site for The Student Body sculpture at a Buildings and Grounds Committee forum
- by May 30, 1991: John Sanders says he will step down as director of the Institute of Government in 1992
- 1992: Michael R. Smith becomes director of the Institute of Government
- Sanders, John L. 15 entries, 1956–2019
- Sanders, Linn B. 1 entry, 1859
- Sanders, Marlene 1 entry, 1970
- Sanders, W. B. 1 entry, 1937
- Sanders, Wiley B. 1 entry, 1919
In books and archives 1 heading
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
- Sanders, John Lassiter, 1 work
In the historical records 21 records
3 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 4 marriages, 6 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 5 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. Sanders marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: William Sanders
1770s
1790s
- 1790Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Hardy Sanders to John Grant Rencher, 3 March 1790
- 1791WillsBill of sale: Hardy Sanders to John Grant Rencher
- 1799WillsWill of Henry (x) Parish
1800s
- 1800Court minutesDeed, Edmond Herndon to James Compton, proved by John Sanders.
- 1801WillsWill of James Guthrie
1810s
- 1811Court minutesThe court appointed Tapley Booth as road overseer.
- 1813Court minutesThe jury found Anne Harris and Elizabeth Sanders guilty on the indictment.
1820s
- 1822MarriagesMarriage bond: Robert Ashley and Polly Sanders
- 1827WillsWill of Letty (x) Sanders
- 1828DeedsJohn P Carter to Romulus Sanders, 25 July 1828
- 1828Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): John P Carter to Romulus Sanders, 25 July 1828
1830s
- 1831MarriagesMarriage bond: William Howard and Nancy Sanders
- 1836MarriagesMarriage bond: Young Cates and Susan Sanders
1860s
1870s
- 1874MarriagesMarriage license: Jesse Sanders and Dora Terrell