Orange County Indexed
The Sawyer surname
The Sawyer name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records and 6 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1798 to 1843
most named in the 1810s
- Marriages 1798–1820
- Records of enslaved people 1815
- Deeds 1815–1843
- Wills 1821
- In the chronology
- 1836 to 1984 6 people in 39 entries, most in the 1950s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Toms Creek (1)
- Married into
- Hicks 1, Smart 1, Underwood 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Vinson 3
- People with a page here
- Bonner D. Sawyer
- Spellings to try
- Sawyers
- Search beyond these records
- Sawyer 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 Sawyer there)
- Sawyer 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 6 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.
- Sawyer, B. D. 1 entry, 1924
-
Sawyer, Bonner 6 entries, 1922–1961
Show the 6 entries
- 1922–1931: Chapel Hill's first town manager and its improvements, 1922–1931
- July 1930: Alexander H. Graham builds a stone law office on Churton Street
- January 28, 1931: Chapel Hill aldermen ask the legislature to let them name the mayor town manager
- September 13, 1933: Bonner Sawyer resigns as prosecutor of Chapel Hill's recorder's court
- week of November 7, 1938: The Orange County Council on Education organizes at Hillsboro
- February 17, 1961: The Hillsboro Lions Club marks its 25th anniversary
- Sawyer, Bonner D. 33 entries, 1922–1961
- Sawyer, J. E. 1 entry, 1836
- Sawyer, Lou 3 entries, 1978–1984
- Sawyer, Merle A. 1 entry, 1943
In the historical records 10 records
3 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 3 marriages, 2 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. Sawyer marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1790s
- 1798MarriagesMarriage bond: John Smart and Patty Sawyer
1810s
- 1813MarriagesMarriage bond: John Underwood and Sally Sawyer
- 1815DeedsAnn Vinson to John Sawyer, 15 April 1815
- 1815Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Ann Vinson to John Sawyer, 15 April 1815
1820s
- 1820MarriagesMarriage bond: Thomas Hicks and Mary C Sawyer
- 1821WillsWill of Elizabeth F. (x) Sawyer
