Orange County Indexed
The Wrightsman surname
The Wrightsman name in Orange County Indexed: 22 historical records.
- In the records
- 1764 to 1817
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1764–1817
- Tax lists 1780
- Court minutes 1789–1811
- Marriages 1798–1809
- Places in its deeds and wills
- McGowans Creek (2), Eno River (2)
- Married into
- Allen 1, Bevins 1, Wilkerson 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Churton 2
- Spellings to try
- Writsman, Wrightman, Wrightsmon
- Search beyond these records
- Wrightsman 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 Wrightsman there)
- Wrightsman 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 22 records
5 deeds, 3 marriages, 13 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. Wrightsman marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
- 1790Court minutesOn appeal, the jury awarded Wm Newman £5.7.4 plus costs against Jo McGee.
- 1795Court minutesThe court assigned named workers and residents’ unnamed hands to Joseph Stubbins’s road from Hillsborough to Nelsons branch.
- 1796Court minutesThe court accepted arbitrators’ award in Stephen Hart’s petition against Thos Hart, ordered partition of land and allocated costs.
- 1798MarriagesMarriage bond: John Wrightsman and Catherine Wilkerson
1800s
1810s
- 1811Court minutesThe court appointed William Chambers as road overseer.
- 1811Court minutesThe court appointed Thomas Stout as road overseer.
- 1817DeedsPeter Wrightsman to Thomas Thompson, 25 September 1817
Undated
- Court minutesJohn Wrightsman registered his mark.
- Court minutesThe jury awarded Colter one penny plus costs against Cockman.
- Court minutesThe sheriff was directed to summon jurors Rich’d Cothran, James Stockard, John Ray Maj and 27 others for next term.
- Court minutesThe court recorded a jury panel with some members excused.
- Court minutesThe court recorded Benjamin Yeargan, Rob’t Moore, James Watson and 12 others for jury service.
- Court minutesThe court ordered jurors Joseph Moore Sheppard, James Faucet Sr, Robert Carson and 11 others summoned for the next term.
- Court minutesThe jury found the conditions fulfilled in James McClure’s action against Joseph Harder.
