Chatham County borders the eastern side of Alamance County and is a treasure trove of Teague Family information.   One of our earliest ancestors, Moses Teague, settled here with his family.  (Moses Teague Will, 1786).  Moses was the son of William Abel TEAGUE and Isabelle LOFTIN.

 

Records show that settlers from Europe arrived in the area as early as the mid 1700s, including a Quaker settlement formed in 1751. Early settlers entered from the north through a trading route of the Catawba Indians and from the south through the Cape Fear River Valley.  The county was formed from a portion of what was once Orange County.