Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of. Orange County, North Carolina 1752-1766

By: Ruth H. Shields, Pub. 1965, Reprinted 2005, 182 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-581-2.  Orange County was created in 1752 from Granville, Johnston and Bladen Counties with Granville having been formed from Edgecombe County. Rowan County was formed as the western boundary of Orange in 1753. Counties formed from Orange were Guilford and Randolph in 1770 with Rockingham taken from Guilford in 1785, Chatham in 1770 with a small portion of it taken to become part of Wake County