TIMELINE FROM 1700 TO 1950
July 6, 2008
1752 Robert Berry Entered in the
office of the Right
Honourable the Earl of Grandville the 6th Day of February
Anin Dom 1752
( this Entry was made while Robert's Property was still in Granville
County before Orange County was formed.)
1752: Orange county was formed from Grandville,
Bladen, and Johnston Counties and the western boundary was indefinite
for about one year when Rowan County was established in 1753.
1752 Orange was formed in 1752 from Johnston, Bladen
and Granville. It was named in honor of the infant William V of Orange.
It is in the central section of the State and is bounded by Durham,
Chatham, Alamance, Caswell and Person counties. The present land area
is 399.84 square miles and the 2000 population was 115,331. The first
courthouse was authorized to be established in 1754 where the western
path crossed the Eno River on the land of James Watson. Childsburg was
established in 1759 and was changed to Hillsborough in 1766.
Hillsborough is the county seat.
1752 When Orange County was first formed the county
covered 3500 sq miles with a population of about 4000 settlers.
Hillsborough had a population of about 1000. The outlaying area had a
population of about one person per 1.2 square miles. By 1753 the
populaton of Hillsborough had swelled to about 2000 people.
1752 Corbin Town was incorporated William Churton was
the surveyor and designed the city map