Orange County Indexed
The Towel surname
The Towel name in Orange County Indexed: 16 historical records.
- In the records
- 1780 to 1811
most named in the 1780s
- Tax lists 1780
- Wills 1783–1802
- Court minutes 1787–1811
- Marriages 1798
- Deeds 1799
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Marys Creek (1)
- Married into
- Madden 1 · the marriages
- Spellings to try
- Towell, Tower
- Search beyond these records
- Towel 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 Towel there)
- Towel 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 16 records
1 deeds, 1 marriages, 9 court minutes, 2 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. Towel marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1780s
- 1780Tax listsThe 1780–81 tax lists: Towel, Jesey (Caswell District)
- 1780Tax listsThe 1780–81 tax lists: Towel, Jesey (Caswell District)
- 1783WillsWill of John (x) Rice
- 1787Court minutesThe court directed the sheriff to summon jurors Joseph Thompson, Jno Breeze, Abram Thompson and 33 others for the next term (Jno Tinnens).
1790s
1800s
- 1800WillsWill of John Murray
- 1801Court minutesDeed, Richard Thompson to Jesse Towel, acknowledged in court.
- 1802WillsWill of Samuel (x) McMullen
1810s
- 1811Court minutesThe court appointed Enoch McPherson as road overseer.
Undated
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire listing the summoned jurors.
- Court minutesFifteen grand jurors were selected by ballot, empaneled, and sworn, with James Ball as foreman.
- Court minutesA jury was assigned to survey a route between marked trees at opposite ends of Wm Harvey’s lane and report.
- Court minutesThe court recorded And’w McBroom, Ralph Faucett, William Woods and 27 others for jury service.
- Court minutesJurors convicted the riot defendants; the court fined Joseph Morgan, William Flinthim and James Morgan and imposed differing prison terms.
