Orange County Indexed
The Shannon surname
The Shannon name in Orange County Indexed: 13 historical records.
- In the records
- 1779 to 1837
most named in the 1790s
- Tax lists 1779–1790
- Deeds 1782–1790
- Marriages 1784
- Wills 1785–1795
- Court minutes 1787–1796
- Records of enslaved people 1837
- Places in its deeds and wills
- S Hico Creek (1), Eno River (1)
- Married into
- Guttery 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Crawford 3, Christmas 3, McBroom 2, Butler 2, Rainey 2
- Spellings to try
- Shanon, Shannin, Shannan
- Search beyond these records
- Shannon 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 Shannon there)
- Shannon 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 13 records
2 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 1 marriages, 5 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 2 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. Shannon marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Shannon Hugh
1780s
- 1782DeedsHugh Shannon to Andrew McBroom Jr, 26 November 1782
- 1784MarriagesMarriage bond: John Shannon and Anne Guttery
- 1785WillsWill of John Butler
- 1787Court minutesWill of John Butler, proved by Moses Crawford & William Shannon.
1790s
- 1790DeedsHugh Shannon to William Keilland [Keeling], 27 February 1790
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Wm. Shannon (Hillsborough District)
- 1791Court minutesDeed, Hugh Shannon to William Keiland, proved by Isaac Rainey.
- 1795WillsWill of William Shannon
- 1796Court minutesWm Ray and Andrew Murdock were appointed to settle Richard Christmas’s executor accounts for Wm Shannon’s estate.
- 1796Court minutesDeed, Hugh Shannon to Andrew McBroom, acknowledged in court.
1830s
- 1837Records of enslaved peopleDeed of trust: John Witherspoon to Charles J Shannon, 13 July 1837
