Orange County, Vermont Genealogy

United States Vermont  Orange County

County Courthouse
Orange County Courthouse 5 Court Street, PO Box 95 Chelsea, VT 05038 802-685-4610 Fax: 802-685-3246

Town Clerks have birth, marriage, death, burial and land records, County Clerk has divorce and court records from 1781 and land records from 1771; Probate Judge has probate records from 1771 Towns Organized Before 1800: Bradford 1770, Braintree 1781, Brookfield 1781, Chelsea 1781, Corinth 1764, Fairlee 1761, Newbury 1763, Orange 1781, Randolph 1781, Straford 1761, Thetford 1761, Topsham 1763, Turnbridge 1761, Vershire 1781, Washington 1781, West Fairlee 1779, Williamstown 1781

Parent County

 * Created 22 February 1781 from the Colonial Lands.

Boundary Changes

 * 18 October 1785, Addison County set off.
 * 5 November 1792, Caledonia, Essex and Orleans Counties set off.
 * 1 November 1810, part of Jefferson County set off (renamed Washington County 8 November 1814.)
 * 26 October 1835, Lamoille County set off.

Populated Places
Towns:

Villages:


 * Newbury
 * Wells River

Community:


 * Bradford

Neighboring Counties
Addison | Caledonia | Washington | Windsor | Grafton County, New Hampshire

Census
A transcript of the 1771 census of Gloucester County, New York survives:


 * O'Callaghan, Edmund B. Documentary History of the State of New York Vol. 4 (1851):709. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.

Probate
Orange County Probate Districts


 * Randolph District - Braintree, Brookfield, Chelsea, Orange, Randolph, Tunbridge, Washington and Williamstown.
 * Bradford District - Bradford, Corinth, Fairlee, Newbury, Strafford, Thetford, Topsham, Vershire and West Fairlee.
 * Orange District - in 1994 the Randolph and Bradford Districts merged under the Orange District.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * Family History Library catalog for Orange County
 * The Orange County VTGenWeb Project, an member of The VTGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Orange County