Orange County Indexed
The Wiams surname
The Wiams name in Orange County Indexed: 5 historical records.
- In the records
- 1779
most named in the 1770s
- Tax lists 1779
- Spellings to try
- Weams, Wimms
- Search beyond these records
- Wiams 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 Wiams there)
- Wiams 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 5 records
4 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. Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Wiams John
Undated
- Court minutesJohn Wiams became overseer from Richard Bennehan’s to New Hope Chapel Road, then cleared only to John Patterson’s.
- Court minutesJohn Wiams returned a sales account for Wm. McCarton’s estate.
- Court minutesThe sheriff was ordered to summon thirty named jurors for the next county court.
- Court minutesJohn Wiams became overseer from Weams to Jno. Sparrows.
