Orange County Indexed
The Bowls surname
The Bowls name in Orange County Indexed: 85 historical records.
- In the records
- 1779 to 1883
most named in the 1780s
- Tax lists 1779–1790
- Court minutes 1782–1817
- Marriages 1782–1883
- Wills 1799–1856
- Places in its deeds and wills
- N. Fork of Little River (1)
- Married into
- Workman 2, Armstrong 1, Berry 1, Finly 1, Davis 1, Jepson 1, Faucet 1, Denning 1, Hessey 1, Holt 1, Johnston 1, Rountree 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Robinson 2, Murdock 2, Taylor 2, Bird 2, Riggs 2, Woods 2
- Spellings to try
- Bowles, Bowle, Bolls, Bowels, Bowes
- Search beyond these records
- Bowls in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Bowls there)
- Bowls in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the historical records 85 records
17 marriages, 55 court minutes, 4 tax list entries and 9 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Bowls marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Bowls John
1780s
- 1782MarriagesMarriage bond: Josiah Finly and Rachel Bowls
- 1782Court minutesNamed grand and petty jurors were appointed for the next court at Hillsborough on the fourth Monday in August.
- 1786Court minutesThe sheriff summoned jurors John Kelly, John Woods, Steaphen Kirk and 23 others for next County Court.
- 1787Court minutesThe court authorized Umstead’s deposition without the parties; the jury later awarded Benton £11.2.1. Sheppard filed a salt-sale account…
- 1787Court minutesThe jury found for James Currey against Jackson and Collins; an appeal was requested.
- 1787Court minutesThe court directed the sheriff to summon jurors Joseph Thompson, Jno Breeze, Abram Thompson and 33 others for the next term (Jno Tinnens).
- 1788Court minutesOn appeal, the jury awarded Wm Courtney £3.1 plus costs against Wm Shepperd.
- 1788Court minutesThe court fined jurors John Woods, Barnet Troxler, James Holmes and 5 others for failing to attend.
- 1788Court minutesThe court appointed Thomas Bowls as road overseer.
- 1788Court minutesThe jury acquitted James Riggs of petty larceny; the court rejected a motion to charge the prosecutor with costs.
- 1788Court minutesThe jury awarded Archibald Lytle £59/8/11 in certificates plus costs against treasurer Jno Haywood.
- 1788Court minutesThe jury awarded Wm Jackson £19.8.7 ½ plus costs against Andrew Brooks.
- 1788Court minutesA juror was withdrawn by agreement in Courtny’s action against Jno Bowls and his unnamed wife.
- 1788Court minutesThe jury returned a verdict favoring Jno and Sam’l Hart against Mary Humphries.
- 1789Court minutesA jury was recorded for trustee Walker’s review proceeding against Horne; no verdict appeared.
- 1789Court minutesA nonsuit was entered in Courtney’s action against Bowls.
- 1789Court minutesA nonsuit was entered in Bowls’s debt action against Courtney.
- 1789Court minutesPeelor was nonsuited; on his attorney’s motion, the court granted a new trial, from which Picket obtained permission to appeal.
- 1789Court minutesOn appeal, the jury awarded Jonah Clifton £14.4.0, one year’s interest, and costs against Wm Lytle.
- 1789Court minutesAllison’s action against Newman ended for failure to prosecute.
- 1789Court minutesA nonsuit was entered in Talham’s action against Shepperd.
- 1789Court minutesThe jury found for Mich’l Carrel in the slander action by Bowls and his unnamed wife; Murdock replaced Bowls on the jury.
- 1789Court minutesThe court appointed Robert Berry as road overseer, replacing Tho Bowls.
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: John Bowls (St. Thomas’ District)
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Thos. Bowls (Hillsborough District)
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Wm. Bowls (Hillsborough District)
- 1791MarriagesMarriage bond: Thomas Bowls and Anne Davis
- 1791MarriagesMarriage bond: William Bowls and Anne Faucet
- 1791MarriagesMarriage bond: Leml Jepson and Nancy Bowls
- 1791Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Jno Bowls granted to Jno Weams?.
- 1792MarriagesMarriage bond: William Denning and Jeane Bowls
- 1794MarriagesMarriage bond: John Henry Hessey and Rebecca Bowls
- 1795Court minutesThe court appointed Hugh Corrathers as road overseer, replacing Wm Stroud.
- 1795Court minutesOn Thomas Bowls’s petition, a jury was assigned to mark a new road around his plantation.
- 1797Court minutesJurors acquitted Douglass Coupland of assault.
- 1799Court minutesThe court recorded Joseph Hastings Jr, Thomas Baker, James Mitchel and 26 others for jury service.
- 1799WillsWill of James (x) Mordak
1800s
1810s
- 1811Court minutesThe court appointed William Bowls as road overseer.
- 1811Court minutesDeed, Elisha Wells to Miles Wells, proved by Benjamin Bowls.
- 1814Court minutesJohn Bowls was ordered to pay Salley Polston child support as the reputed father.
- 1814WillsWill of Elizabeth (x) Murdock
- 1817Court minutesThe court received and recorded a sales account for Aaron Bowls’s estate.
- 1818MarriagesMarriage bond: Thomas Bowls and Nancy Johnston
- 1818MarriagesMarriage bond: William Bowls and Nancy Rountree
1820s
- 1826MarriagesMarriage bond: Jesse Armstrong and Ellen Bowls
- 1827WillsWill of William Hall, Sr.
1830s
- 1830WillsWill of William Miller
- 1835WillsWill of Dianna (x) Moore
- 1839WillsWill of William Taylor
1840s
- 1847WillsWill of Thomas Bowls
1850s
- 1853MarriagesMarriage bond: David Bowls and Mary Cates
- 1856WillsWill of Nancy Bowls
1860s
- 1866MarriagesMarriage bond: Essix Taylor and Catharine Bowls
1870s
- 1870MarriagesMarriage license: Charles Emerson and Adline Bowls
- 1873MarriagesMarriage license: Joshua Paschal and Pattie Bowls
- 1873MarriagesMarriage license: Columbus Workman and Anneliza Bowls
- 1875MarriagesMarriage license: William W Workman and Emma F Bowls
1880s
- 1883MarriagesMarriage license: Thomas P Berry and Elizabeth Bowls
Undated
- Court minutesThe court ordered a fine against John Bowls for failing to attend as a talesman.
- Court minutesThe court appointed Thomas Bowls as road overseer, replacing Michael Robinson.
- Court minutesThe jury convicted Wm O’Neal of assault.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire listing the summoned jurors.
- Court minutesThe record named seventeen jurors remaining on the original panel.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire listing the summoned jurors.
- Court minutesThe court recorded David Strayhorn, James Hart, James Craig and 34 others for jury service.
- Court minutesThe court listed the remaining members of the original jury panel.
- Court minutesThomas Bowls, Jno Allison, Wm Tate, Sherwood Dunnigan and James Robinson were excused from jury attendance because they were not freehold…
- Court minutesThe court appointed Ezekiel Brewer as road overseer, replacing Jno Bowls.
- Court minutesIsaac Blackwood was convicted of assaulting John Gaddis Jr, fined and held for fees.
- Court minutesThe court appointed Thomas Bowls as road overseer, replacing John Berry.
- Court minutesThomas Mulholland prevailed against Mary Scarlet on appeal.
- Court minutesSamuel Thompson was nonsuited in his administration-capacity appeal against Andrew Burke.
- Court minutesJno Warren recovered damages and costs against Adam Marley and Thomas Vincent.
- Court minutesThe court appointed David Allison as road overseer, replacing Jno Thompson.
- Court minutesJames Carson recovered damages and costs against Jacob Flowers and others; execution awaited his direction, and an appeal was requested.
- Court minutesThe court fined absent witnesses Wm Bowls, Thomas Fitch, Jonathan Harvey and Charles Taylor in James Hughs’s suit against Mary Burch.
- Court minutesJohn Bowls Sr was conditionally fined for missing jury attendance.
- Court minutesThe jury rejected payment and setoff and awarded Bennehan and Cameron damages and costs.
- Court minutesRobert Tinnen, Benjamin Bowls and John Dunn were appointed to allot widow Mary Ellis a year’s provisions from Nimrod Ellis’s estate.
- Court minutesThe court cancelled William Murray’s guardianship and appointed Jehu Bird guardian of Henderson Haney, with bond.
- Court minutesWill of Aaron Bowls, proved by Oath.
- WillsWill of Thomas Bowls
