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Orange Family Genealogy – Lewis Orange 1720 - 1792

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Generation 5:

·        Lewis Orange: 1720 – 1792 married unknown

·        Keziah Orange: 1732 - 1792

o   William Orange: 1759 – 1815

o   Lewis Orange: 1756 – 1779

o   Joshua Orange: 1750 – 1812

o   Lucretia Orange: 1760 - 1824

Lewis Orange (son of Louis/Lewis) was born about 1720 and died after 1792.  His wife (marriage date unknown) Keziah was born about 1732 and died about 1792.  They had four children with William Orange being the direct descendant born January 26, 1759 in Cumberland County.

Lewis Orange (spelled Oring) bought 400 acres of land on May 24, 1756 in the central part of Cumberland County from Julius Allen, a Henrico County Patentee[xxii]. Lewis owned 135 acres along Stamping Branch, a fork of Little Guinea Creek in Virginia that he gave to William. On this land was a family cemetery.

This land is thought to be different than the land left by Lewis Orange 1670 to his son Lewis Orange 1720.   Henrico County was split in 1728 to add Goochland County.  Goochland County was split in 1749 to add Cumberland County (part south of the James River).  Since Lewis's will was executed in 1734 in Henrico County after the formation of Goochland County, the land cannot be in Cumberland County.

Lewis Orange (spelled Oringe) shows as having a law suit brought against him in Cumberland County in May 24, 1762 and June 28, 1762, an Alias Capias was awarded.[xxiii]  The law suit person was Thomas Yuille.

Lewis Orange and wife Keziah (thought to be Lewis 1720) sold land in Cumberland County Virginia to Thomas Moore for 26 pounds and five shillings on January 24, 1771.[xxiv]  The total land sold was 105 acres of the 400 acres that Lewis bought in 1756. Another Indenture shows up on April 20, 1776 that says Lewis Orange sold 105 acres to Thomas Moore.[xxv]  Lewis Orange sold his land to John Farmer and Thomas Moore. The Farmer name shows additionally as a surety for William's marriage and also Edith Orange marries Burnell Farmer on Dec. 12, 1812 in Amelia County, Va. William is the direct descendent.

In the 1782 census,[xxvi] Joshua Orange is listed with a total of 4 white people in Cumberland County.  Lewis Orange 1720 is also listed as a separate head of household and with 4 white people.  This must be Lewis Orange 1720 since Lewis 1756 (his son) died in the Revolutionary War.

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Related Orange records:

I found records of the name Keziah, it was an Indian name in North Carolina.  There was a Chief Nicholas that married a Huguenot named Elizabeth Maria Calais Duneveaux.  Some web sites say they had a daughter named Rebecca Keziah.  Some web sites say this person married Lewis Orange.  They say Rebecca Keziah then married William Smith and had a daughter in 1762.  The William Smith genealogy was approved in 1953 by the sons of the American Revolution.[i]   However, the Rebecca is Rebecca Moore and she married William Smith in 1758.  The land deed indicates that Keziah was Lewis’s wife first name and that they were still married in 1771.  I cannot find any factual documents to support Rebecca Keziah related to Lewis Orange.  Therefore, I have listed Keziah Orange as Lewis Orange’s spouse as stated in the land deed. 

Peter Orange (Lewis’s uncle) appears with Peter Depp on the 1744 list of inhabitants of King William Parish.[xxvii] He is also listed in the Huguenot Immigration to Virginia records.[xxviii] 

On March 28, 1754 Peter Orange died in Amelia County Virginia and left 100 pounds to his wife Ann.[xxix]  The will was originally created before there was an Amelia County in 1734/1735. It is probably not the land that Lewis Orange gave him in Henrico County. Amelia County was not ever part of Henrico County, therefore Peter must have moved. Amelia County is adjacent to Cumberland County.

John Orange owned land in Henrico County in August 6, 1762 near John Parsons's land which was on the west side of Beachen Run.[xxx]  Since John ended up with the Houses, he may have ended up with all of the land in Henrico County. Since Peter showed up in Amelia County and Lewis-2 in Cumberland County.

Joshua Orange enlisted in the Revolutionary war on February 15, 1776 and was discharged on March 5, 1778.[xxxi]  He was from Cumberland County and joined the 5th Virginia Battalion. He was in the Rifle Regimen 5th VA. Battalion and shows as a Corporal.[xxxii]  Joshua Orange was born ca. 1758.

He served in the VA militia during Dunmore's War. This was a war with the Indians in the land between the Alleghenies and the Ohio River. So he was an Indian fighter. He must have been a good shot since he was with Morgan's Rifles during the Revolutionary War. His service in Dunmore's War is noted in the Library of Virginia card file, card 31 of 53. And if you're interested in Dunmore's War, do a Google search on [Dunmore's +war] and you'll get several pages of links. The "OhioKids" link gives a nice, simple description, and the "newriver" link gives a more thorough treatment.

Lewis Orange 1756 enlisted on February 12, 1778 and was shown as sick in Brunswich on November, 1778 and dead on January 13, 1779.[xxxiii]  He did not pick up his last pay sent on June 16, 1786 so it is assumed the records are correct. His pay was picked up by Jos Carrington. Lewis 1756 joined the 7th VA. Reg't. Both Lewis Orange 1756 and Joshua are listed as soldiers who have not received bounty land.[xxxiv]

 

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[i] https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/91604086?cid=mem_copy