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Orange County Indexed

The Speed surname

The Speed name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.

In the records
1779 to 1876 most named in the 1770s
  • Court minutes 1779
  • Tax lists 1779
  • Deeds 1788–1864
  • Marriages 1858–1876
In the chronology
1846 1 person in 1 entry
Places in its deeds and wills
Flat River (2), Reeds Creek (2), Dry Creek (1), Horse Creek (1), Little River (1), Hillsborough (1)
Married into
Gray 1, Mangum 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Mangum 2, Benehan 2
Spellings to try
Sneed, Speek
Search beyond these records

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 1 person

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.

In the historical records 10 records

4 deeds, 2 marriages, 3 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Speed marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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Undated

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