Orange County Indexed
The Sturges surname
The Sturges name in Orange County Indexed: 15 historical records.
- In the records
- 1784 to 1792
most named in the 1780s
- Deeds 1784–1792
- Court minutes 1787–1791
- Tax lists 1790
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Eno River (2)
- Spellings to try
- Sturgis, Sturgess
- Search beyond these records
- Sturges 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 Sturges there)
- Sturges 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 15 records
2 deeds, 12 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. Search the name in every collection
1780s
- 1784DeedsHenry McCoy to John Sturges, 24 January 1784
- 1787Court minutesThe jury awarded John Strother £20 in damages plus costs against William Steel.
- 1787Court minutesA venire issued, and the sheriff was directed to summon jurors John Brook, James Woody, Wm Common and 26 others for the next county court.
- 1787Court minutesA juror was withdrawn in Jackson and Collins’s action against James Curry.
- 1787Court minutesThe court conditionally fined six jurors twenty shillings apiece for failing to attend.
- 1787Court minutesThe jury found for the defendant in Jno Faddis’s action against Brown.
- 1787Court minutesThe jury awarded Saml Allen £24.17 in damages plus costs against Jno Sturges.
1790s
- 1790Court minutesThe jury returned an award of £526.6.3 plus costs in Miller and Young’s debt action against Allison.
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: John Sturges (Orange District)
- 1791Court minutesA nonsuit was entered in Nichols’s appeal against Latta.
- 1791Court minutesWm Muzzle won three shillings and costs against Jno Sturges on appeal.
- 1792DeedsJohn Sturges to Thomas Person, 17 October 1792
