Orange County Indexed
The Sheels surname
The Sheels name in Orange County Indexed: 23 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1764 to 1787
most named in the 1780s
- Deeds 1764–1780
- Court minutes 1778–1787
- Tax lists 1779–1780
- Records of enslaved people 1786
- Wills 1787
- In the chronology
- 1777 1 person in 1 entry
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Eno River (1)
- Often named with
- McCauley 2, Nichols 2
- Spellings to try
- Shiels, Shels, Steels, Sheils
- Search beyond these records
- Sheels 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 Sheels there)
- Sheels 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 23 records
4 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 14 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 2 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. Search the name in every collection
1760s
1770s
1780s
- 1780DeedsJohn Sheels to William McCauley, 3 May 1780
- 1780Tax listsThe 1780–81 tax lists: Sheels, John (Hillsborough District)
- 1784Court minutesAn appeal was granted in Jno. Hogan’s case against Jon Sheels.
- 1786Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): John Sheels to Mary Sheels, 2 April 1786
- 1787Court minutesDeed of gift, John Sheels to Mary Sheels, proved by John Nichols.
- 1787WillsWill of John Sheels
- 1787WillsDeed of gift: John Sheels to Mary Sheels
Undated
- Court minutesDeed, John Sheels to Archd. Higin, proved by Edmund Higgin.
- Court minutesJohn Sheels became county standard keeper; the previous keeper’s executors were ordered to deliver the standard.
- Court minutesJailer John Sheels exhibited a county account for Jesse Bryans’s prison tax.
- Court minutesThe sheriff was ordered to pay John Sheels £120 for building a kitchen at the public jail.
- Court minutesLott No. 117 in Hillsborough, James Thackston to Nath'l. Rochester, proved by John Sheels.
- Court minutesRobt. McIntyre replaced John Sheels, who resigned as standard keeper.
- Court minutesPart of a Lott in Hillsborough, Wm. Nunn to John Sheels.
- Court minutesJohn Sheels received a tavern license at his Hillsborough house.
- Court minutesLott in Hillsborough #127, Wm. Courtney & John Sheels & Robert McIntrye to Thomas McKeral, proved by Exec..
- Court minutesJohn Sheels received an ordinary license at his dwelling, secured by Charles Abercrombie.
- Court minutesTwelve jurors were impanelled and sworn as Jury No. 76.
