Orange County Indexed
The Dowell surname
The Dowell name in Orange County Indexed: 83 historical records.
- In the records
- 1759 to 1837
most named in the 1760s
- Court minutes 1759–1766
- Deeds 1765–1837
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Hillsborough (2), King Street (2), Spring Lane (1)
- Often named with
- Scott 6, Handley 4, Few 3, Brooks 3, Sharpe 3, Brown 3, Fuller 3, Nash 2, Fanning 2, Johnston 2, Wood 2, Jones 2
- Spellings to try
- Dowel
- Search beyond these records
- Dowell 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 Dowell there)
- Dowell 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 83 records
9 deeds and 74 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1759Court minutesJohn Dowell received permission to operate an ordinary.
1760s
- 1765DeedsJohn Dowell to Jacob Mason, August 1765
- 1765DeedsJohn Scott to John Dowell, August 1765
- 1765Court minutesJohn Dowell’s ordinary license was renewed with John Dennis and John Stroud as bondsmen.
- 1765Court minutesJohn Dowell was allowed £1-17 for holding Shadrick Morriss thirty-seven days before escape and fifteen shillings for summoning William Wi…
- 1766DeedsWilliam Few to John Dowell, August 1766
- 1766DeedsJohn Dowell to William Few & Nathaniel Walton, November 1766
- 1766Court minutesThe sheriff was ordered to pay John Dowell £1-12-8 proclamation money for repaving the old jail.
- 1766Court minutesJohn Dowell’s ordinary license was renewed.
- 1767DeedsJoseph Duncan to James Dowell, February 1767
- 1767DeedsJohn Dowell to John Hodge, May 1767
- 1768DeedsJohn Dowell & Edmund Fanning & Francis Nash to William Johnston, 24 March 1768
- 1768DeedsJohn Dowell & William Few to William Johnston, 25 March 1768
1830s
Undated
- Court minutesThe court selected twelve grand jurors for the next Superior Court at Salisbury.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell was to testify against James Espey and John Wood concerning false money; John Wood was discharged.
- Court minutesJames Bowie, Thomas Whitehead and John Dowell qualified as deputy sheriffs.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell’s ordinary license was renewed.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an original attachment proceeding against John Jones.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a petition against David Liles.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an original attachment proceeding against John Jones.
- Court minutesThomas Brooks and his unnamed wife brought an action on the case against John Dowell and his unnamed wife.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an original attachment proceeding against Terrance McMullin.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Harris’s unnamed administrators.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a petition against Jane Gold.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an original attachment proceeding against Phillip Morriss.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell’s ordinary license was renewed.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Joseph Sharp.
- Court minutesThomas Humphries and his unnamed wife brought an action on the case against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Scott and his unnamed wife proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell replaced William Comb as road overseer.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Thomas Wiley.
- Court minutesThomas Green proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell proceeded against John Scott and his unnamed wife.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Andrew Campbell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Joseph Sharpe.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell’s ordinary license was renewed.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell proceeded against Harriss’s unnamed administrators.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Andrew Norwood.
- Court minutesThomas Humphries and his unnamed wife proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesThomas Green proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Daniel Handley.
- Court minutesDaniel Handley proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a debt claim against John Dunnagan.
- Court minutesGarnishee John Dowell was discharged after showing he held no James Espay effects in John Stubbs’s suit.
- Court minutesThe sheriff was ordered to pay John Dowell twenty-five pounds for building the jail stockade.
- Court minutesMathew Brown brought an action on the case against John Dowell.
- Court minutesAlex. Fuller and his unnamed wife proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesAlex. Fuller and his unnamed wife brought an action on the case against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a petition against Thomas Cate.
- Court minutesJohn Scott and his unnamed wife proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesThree grand jurors and three petit jurors were appointed for Halifax court.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell pleaded no debt in Mathew Brown’s suit and was released on appeal with John Wood Senior and David Steel as bondsmen.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell proceeded against John Scott and his unnamed wife.
- Court minutesThomas Brooks proceeded against John Dowell and his unnamed wife.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Andrew Campbell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Joseph Sharpe.
- Court minutesMathew Brown brought an action on the case against John Dowell.
- Court minutesAlexander Fuller and his unnamed wife proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Daniel Handley.
- Court minutesAdministrators Edmund Fanning and Francis Nash brought four debt suits against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell was allowed £1-16 for extra county services.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Daniel Handley.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a petition against Henry Trollinger.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell proceeded against Joseph Sharpe.
- Court minutesMicahel Killinger brought a petition against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a petition against John McVey.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a petition against Samuel Fulton.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a petition against Isaac Holden.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against James Minnis.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against George Smith.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a debt claim against Henry Brasewell and Elijah Cain.
- Court minutesPhillip Jackson replaced John Dowell as road overseer.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell was allowed £13-11 for feeding jailed defendants William Massey, James Robinson, John Ward, Moses Watkins and Bazzel Brashear…
- Court minutesJohn Scott proceeded against John Dowell and his unnamed wife.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a petition against John Woods.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against John Dennice.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Samuel Ricketts.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Hugh Smith.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought an action on the case against Niel McCallister.
- Court minutesWeldon’s unnamed administrators petitioned against John Dowell.
- Court minutesBibby (?) Brooks proceeded against John Dowell.
- Court minutesJohn Dowell brought a debt claim against John Davis.
