Orange County Indexed
The Mims surname
The Mims name in Orange County Indexed: 13 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1759 to 1840
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1759–1840
- In the chronology
- 1918 1 person in 1 entry
- Often named with
- Braswell 2
- Spellings to try
- Mimms
- Search beyond these records
- Mims 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 Mims there)
- Mims 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 1 person
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.
In the historical records 13 records
9 deeds and 4 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
1760s
- 1760DeedsJohn Johnson to James Mims, November 1760
- 1761DeedsNiel McNiel to Joseph Mims, August 1761
- 1761DeedsDavid Mims to Drury Mims, August 1761
- 1762DeedsJoseph Mims to Richard Hill, February 1762
- 1764DeedsEzekiel Shaddock to Drury Mims, February 1764
- 1764DeedsBenjamin Bohannan to Drury Mims, August 1764
- 1766DeedsDrury Mims to Benjamin Bohannon, November 1766
1840s
Undated
- Court minutesDeed, Richard Braswell to David Mims.
- Court minutesA jury was appointed for the road through Henry Braswell’s to Johns(t)on County; Simpson Williams and Richard Cheek became overseers.
- Court minutesMiddleton Brashears brought a debt claim against Henry Mims.
- Court minutesThirteen jurors were appointed to lay out a road from William Braswell’s ferry on Cape Fare to Hamilton’s store on Crabtree Creek.
