Orange County Indexed
The Elliss surname
The Elliss name in Orange County Indexed: 14 historical records.
- In the records
- 1752 to 1811
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1752
- Records of enslaved people 1794
- Court minutes 1795–1811
- Often named with
- Cole 2
- Spellings to try
- Ellis, Euliss
- Search beyond these records
- Elliss 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 Elliss there)
- Elliss 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 14 records
1 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people and 12 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
1790s
- 1794Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): John Elliss to Thomas Cole, 20 November 1794
- 1795Court minutesDeed, Wm Oneal & Thomas Mulholland to Conrod Pyle, proved by John Elliss.
- 1795Court minutesDeed, Thomas Cole to John Elliss, acknowledged in court.
- 1797Court minutesDeed, Everard Garret to Jno Albright, proved by John Elliss.
- 1799Court minutesThe court appointed Joseph Freeland as road overseer.
1800s
1810s
- 1811Court minutesJohn Elliss registered his livestock earmark.
Undated
- Court minutesNancy Benton recovered damages and costs against Collins and Wizener for unperformed covenants.
- Court minutesJohn Elliss and Benjamin Rainey became special bail for John Williams in John Ray’s ejectment suit.
- Court minutesJohn Ray was nonsuited and appealed his ejectment action against John Williams; jurors Richard Christmas and Jno Ellis proved attendance…
- Court minutesRobert Moore was nonsuited in his action against Walter Mankins.
