Orange County Indexed
The Weems surname
The Weems name in Orange County Indexed: 11 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1767 to 1791
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1767–1790
- Tax lists 1780
- Court minutes 1787–1791
- Marriages 1791
- In the chronology
- 1821 1 person in 1 entry
- Married into
- Jones 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Allen 2
- Spellings to try
- Weeks, Weams, Wems, Weemes
- Search beyond these records
- Weems 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 Weems there)
- Weems 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 11 records
2 deeds, 1 marriages, 7 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Weems marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1780s
1790s
- 1790DeedsJohn Weems to Samuel Allen, 10 December 1790
- 1791MarriagesMarriage bond: John Weems and Sarah Jones
- 1791Court minutesDeed, John Weems to Samuel Allen, proved by Benjamin Yeargan.
Undated
- Court minutesJohn Weems became guardian of Alexander McCarty, orphan of Wm. McCarthy, on a £1,000 bond secured by Thos. Connelly and Wm. Pickett.
- Court minutesThirty named men were appointed grand and petit jurors for next county court and ordered summoned.
- Court minutesFifteen grand jurors were sworn, with Robt. Abercrombie as foreman.
- Court minutesWilliam Merritt’s mill petition was postponed; five appraisers were appointed to value one acre of John Morgan’s land and report next court.
- Court minutesTwenty-six people were ordered summoned for the next Hillsborough county court.
