Orange County Indexed
The Howell surname
The Howell name in Orange County Indexed: 35 historical records, 9 people in the chronology and 3 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1868
most named in the 1790s
- Tax lists 1755–1790
- Deeds 1763–1857
- Wills 1786–1800
- Court minutes 1787–1813
- Marriages 1797–1868
- In the chronology
- 1768 to 1988 9 people in 39 entries, most in the 1920s
- In books and archives
- 3 people, born 1841 to 1895
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Mine Creek (1), Haw River (1), Stony Creek (1), Morgan Creek (1), New Hope Creek (1)
- Married into
- Gowen 1, Millison 1, Jameson 1, Wallis 1, Tinnin 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Brooks 3, McCulloch 2, Freeman 2
- People with a page here
- A. C. Howell, Alden G Howell, E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell, Rednap Howell
- Spellings to try
- Howel, Holwell
- Search beyond these records
- Howell 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 Howell there)
- Howell 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 chronology 9 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
- Howell, A. C. 8 entries, 1921–1957
- Howell, A. C. 1 entry, 1950
- Howell, E. V. 14 entries, 1897–1945
- Howell, Edward Vernon 1 entry, 1891
- Howell, Jesse 1 entry, 1848
- Howell, John 1 entry, 1988
- Howell, Rednap 8 entries, 1768–1771
- Howell, Roger W. 1 entry, 1952
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Howell, Vernon 6 entries, 1899–1932
Show the 6 entries
- 1899–1931: The Bank of Chapel Hill, 1899–1931
- 1925: The Bank of Chapel Hill buys the Peoples Bank
- January 14 and 15, 1925: Peoples Bank officers cover a shortage overnight and open on time
- March 19, 1931: J. Grover Beard becomes dean of the University's pharmacy school
- September 14, 1932: Chapel Hill aldermen name Hooper Lane for Professor William Hooper
- 1932: Rebecca Clark moves to Chapel Hill and goes to work in a faculty home
In books and archives 3 headings
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.
In the historical records 35 records
10 deeds, 5 marriages, 11 court minutes, 6 tax list entries and 3 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. Howell marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: Lewis Howell
1760s
1770s
- 1772DeedsElisha Hall to John Howell, 1 October 1772
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Howell Benjamin
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Howell John
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Howell John
1780s
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Benjamin Howell (St. Thomas’ District)
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Edward Howell (St. Thomas’ District)
- 1792DeedsEdward Howell to Anderson Stroud, 13 October 1792
- 1792WillsWill of Thomas Lloyd
- 1793DeedsJohn Howell to Edward Thomas, August 1793
- 1794DeedsFrancis Howell to John Tate, 20 December 1794
- 1795DeedsJohn Howell to John Danielly, 10 April 1795
- 1797MarriagesMarriage bond: John Millison and Mary Howell
- 1798DeedsNorth Carolina to John Howell, 13 August 1798
1800s
- 1800Court minutesAdministration of the estate of William Howell granted to John Millison and William Hines; sureties Thomas Whitehead and George Madden.
- 1800WillsWill of Elizabeth Stroud
- 1802Court minutesThe court apprenticed Brooks Howell to Andrew Brooks for instruction in carpentry.
- 1804MarriagesMarriage bond: John Jameson and Tempe Howell
1810s
1850s
1860s
- 1860MarriagesMarriage bond: Alexander Howell and Mary Jane Wallis
- 1861MarriagesMarriage bond: Freeman Howell and Eliza Gowen
- 1868MarriagesMarriage license: Alexander Howell and Martha Ann Tinnin
Undated
- Court minutesRobert Howell’s mark was recorded.
- Court minutesJohn Howell and Thomas Beal recorded marks.
- Court minutesThe August road order toward James Williams’s mill was renewed, assigning seventeen named workers under Mr. Hightower.
- Court minutesThe court apprenticed Benjamin Howell to Andrew Brooks after finding that his father Benjamin had left the family for over a year.
- Court minutesElizabeth Brooks petitioned for solemn probate of Thomas Brooks’s alleged will; interested parties were summoned, with newspaper notice o…
- Court minutesJohn Thompson received permission to sell enough of Mary Howell’s personal estate on credit to satisfy Rich’d Freeman’s judgment.
- Court minutesDeed of conveyance, Zebulon Veasy & Nancy Veasy to William Cain, proved by Isaac Cain.
