Orange County Indexed
The Bull surname
The Bull name in Orange County Indexed: 21 historical records and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1767 to 1807
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1767–1805
- Marriages 1788
- Court minutes 1790–1807
- Wills 1800
- In books and archives
- 1 person
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Back Creek (2), Mebane (1)
- Married into
- Anderson 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Mebane 5, Beason 3, Thompson 2, Rippey 2
- People with a page here
- William Bull
- Spellings to try
- Bul
- Search beyond these records
- Bull 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 Bull there)
- Bull 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 books and archives 1 heading
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
- Bull, William 10 works
In the historical records 21 records
3 deeds, 1 marriages, 16 court minutes and 1 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. Bull marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
- 1767DeedsHenry Willis to Jacob Bull, May 1767
1780s
- 1788MarriagesMarriage bond: Richard Bull and Anne Anderson
1790s
- 1790Court minutesThe court ordered orphan Elizabeth Pollard bound to Rich’d Bull until adulthood; payment of fees was noted.
- 1790Court minutesThe court ordered orphan Maston Elmore bound to Richard Bull until age twenty-one to learn blacksmithing.
- 1791DeedsWilliam Mebane to Richard Bull, 16 August 1791
- 1791Court minutesThe jury awarded Wm Courtney damages and costs against Peter V Williamson.
- 1791Court minutesDeed, Wm Mebane to Edward Rippey, proved by Richard Bull and Jacob Beason.
- 1791Court minutesDeed, Wm Mebane to Richard Bull, proved by Edward Massey & Jacob Beason.
- 1791Court minutesDeed, Wm Mebane to Jacob Basson, proved by Richard Bull & Edward Rippey.
- 1795Court minutesThe court appointed Wm Bryan Sr as road overseer.
1800s
- 1800WillsWill of Jacob Beason
- 1805DeedsRichard Bull to John Thompson, 8 November 1805
- 1807Court minutesDeed, Richard Bull to John Thompson, proved by John Woody.
Undated
- Court minutesJames Hunter brought a petition against Edward Bull.
- Court minutesRichard Lyon brought a petition against Edward Bull.
- Court minutesThe sheriff was directed to summon jurors Rich’d Cothran, James Stockard, John Ray Maj and 27 others for next term.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire with attendance annotations.
- Court minutesThe court swore the grand jury.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Patrick Dunn granted to James Dunn; sureties William F Strudwick and Richard Bull.
- Court minutesJames Hutcheson joined as James Lynch’s executor; the court appointed John Ray surveyor and a viewing jury in James Murray’s case.
- Court minutesJames Murray was nonsuited in his action against James Lynch’s executors.
