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The Summers surname

The Summers name in Orange County Indexed: 78 historical records.

In the records
1755 to 1849 most named in the 1830s
  • Tax lists 1755–1779
  • Deeds 1764–1845
  • Court minutes 1784–1818
  • Wills 1795–1846
  • Records of enslaved people 1823–1833
  • Marriages 1833–1849
Places in its deeds and wills
Haw River (13), Travis Creek (8), Gun Creek (2), Alamance Creek (2), Laughlins Creek (2), Back Creek (2), Mason Creek (2), Stony Creek (2)
Married into
Cable 1, Cobb 1, Hobbs 1, Parmer 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Cable 7, Gibson 6, McClure 5, Rainey 4, Christman 3, Coble 2, Nicholson 2, Mitchell 2, Isley 2, Clapp 2, Hutchison 2, Smothers 2
Spellings to try
Sumers, Sumners, Summer
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 historical records 78 records

43 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 4 marriages, 23 court minutes, 4 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. Summers marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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