Orange County Indexed
The Weams surname
The Weams name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records.
- In the records
- 1785 to 1791
most named in the 1780s
- Court minutes 1785–1791
- Spellings to try
- Weaks, Weems, Wiams
- Search beyond these records
- Weams 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 Weams there)
- Weams 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 6 records
6 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
1780s
- 1785Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire, and fifteen named grand jurors were sworn.
- 1786Court minutesThos. Kirkland became overseer from Wm. Rhodes to John Weams, with eleven named hands assigned to repairs.
- 1788Court minutesThe court appointed Tho Scarlet to oversee the Rhodes–Weams road and assigned named workers and the widow Patterson’s laborers.
1790s
- 1791Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Jno Bowls granted to Jno Weams?.
