Books of Interest

Books about Orange County or Orange County Families

Thanks to all those who have recommended books for this page!  If you know of any books that could be added to this list, please let me know.  The only information I have about these books is what I have included below.  Joyce
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Orange County, 1752 - 1952, edited by  Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager, printed in 1953

Marriages of Orange County, NC, 1779 - 1868, compiled by Brent H. Holcomb, pub. in
1983 by Genealogical Publishing Co.


Land Grant Records of North Carolina, Vol. 1, Orange County, 1752 - 1885 , compiled
by Pat Shaw Bailey, pub. in 1990 by Mountain Press

Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern Community: Orange County, North Carolina,
1849 - 1881
, by Robert C. Kenzer, University of Tennessee Press

Abstracts of Land Entries: Orange County, NC, 1778 - 1795
, Compiled by Dr. A. B. Pruitt

Abstracts of the Minutes of Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Sept., 1752 - Aug., 1766
      abstracted by Ruth Herndon Shields

Abstracts of the Minutes of Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, 1777 - 1788
  abstracted by Alma Cheek Redden

Abstracts of Wills, Orange County, NC, 1752 - 1850 by Shields

The Illustrative History of Chapel Hill by Vickers

Guide to Research Materials in the North Carolina Archives , Section B: County
      Records, Ninth Revised Edition, Raleigh, Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of
      Archives and History, Archives and Records Section, 1984

Orange County Records by William D. Bennett:
Volume I:  Granville Proprietary Land Office, Abstracts of Loose Papers
Volume II:  Deed Books 1 & 2, Abstracts
Volume III:  Deed Book 3
Volume IV:  Deed Book 4
Volume V:  Granville Proprietary Land Office Deeds & Surveys, 1752 - 1760
Volume VI:  Granville Proprietary Land Office Deeds & Surveys, 1761 - 1763
Volume VII:  Granville Proprietary Land Office Miscellaneous Records
Volume VIII:  Deed Book 5, Abstracts
Volume IX:  State Land Grants 1 - 500
Volume X:  State Land Grants 501 - 1000
Volume XI:  Deed Books 6 & 7, Abstracts
Volume XII:  Deed Books 8 & 9, Abstracts
Volume XIII:  Inventories & Accounts of Sales, 1758 - 1785
Volume XIV:  Deed Books 10 & 11
Volume XV:  Deed Book 12, 1805 - 1807
Volume XVI:  Inventories & Accounts of Sales, 1800 - 1808
Volume XVII:  Deed Book 13
Volume XVIII:  Deed Book 14
Volume XIX:  Deed Books 15 & 16

Thomas Thompson and Ann Finney of Colonial Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Hart

Lawrence Closs and John Thompson, Allied Lines of Finney, McAllister, Buchanan and
by Jane Buchanan.  You may contact the author by clicking HERE.

Facing Tomorrow, Understanding Yesterday - A History of Orange United Methodist Church since 1832 edited by Margaret A. Blanchard, published in Chapel Hill, NC

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