Orange County Indexed
The Shepheard surname
The Shepheard name in Orange County Indexed: 13 historical records.
- In the records
- 1761
most named in the 1760s
- Wills 1761
- Often named with
- Mauldin 2, Cresap 2
- Spellings to try
- Shepperd, Shepherd, Sheppard, Sheperd, Shepard, Shipherd
- Search beyond these records
- Shepheard 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 Shepheard there)
- Shepheard 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
12 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
1760s
- 1761WillsWill of Mary Shepheard
Undated
- Court minutesAnn Leach swore that Andrew Shepheard fathered her child; four named men secured Shepheard.
- Court minutesA jury was appointed for the road through Henry Braswell’s to Johns(t)on County; Simpson Williams and Richard Cheek became overseers.
- Court minutesBenjamin Phillips brought an action on the case against George Shepheard.
- Court minutesGeorge Poplen surrendered Richard Mauldin in Andrew Shepheard’s suit; the sheriff was ordered to take Mauldin into custody.
- Court minutesEleven named workers were assigned to open and repair the Hodges Ford–Copeland’s Island road under William Riddle.
- Court minutesThomas Hart brought a debt claim against Wm. Shepheard and Wm. Bailey.
- Court minutesAndrew Shepheard brought an action on the case against Richard Mauldin.
- Court minutesThomas Cresap brought an action on the case against William Shepheard.
- Court minutesImprisoned William Shepheard submitted an estate schedule and petitioned as an insolvent debtor in Thomas Cresap’s suit.
- Court minutesJailed William Shepheard returned an estate schedule for sale to benefit Thomas Caper.
- Court minutesWilliam Shepheard reported further estate funds held by Mark London, Joseph Thrasher and James Saunders.
- Court minutesWilliam Shepheard took the insolvent debtor’s oath.
