Orange County Indexed
The Wills surname
The Wills name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records and 6 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1760 to 1814
most named in the 1770s
- Deeds 1760–1764
- Tax lists 1779
- Court minutes 1783–1814
- Marriages 1789
- Records of enslaved people 1793
- Wills 1795
- In the chronology
- 1891 to 1933 6 people in 9 entries, most in the 1910s
- Married into
- Gifferd 1 · the marriages
- Spellings to try
- Wells, Willis, Walls, Wilks, Willms
- Search beyond these records
- Wills 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 Wills there)
- Wills 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 6 people
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.
- Wills, C. L. 3 entries, 1917–1925
- Wills, Charles B. 1 entry, 1923
- Wills, Charles Battle 1 entry, 1918
- Wills, Clarence 2 entries, 1917–1928
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Wills, H. C. 4 entries, 1917–1933
Show the 4 entries
- June 11, 1917: The Chapel Hill Hardware Company closes and goes into receivership
- by September 6, 1917: The Chapel Hill Hardware Company comes out of receivership
- 1917–1930: The Chapel Hill Hardware Company and its successors, 1917–1930
- by August 18, 1933: Brodie S. Thompson gets the contract to repair the termite-damaged Orange County Training School
- Wills, W. H. 1 entry, 1891
In the historical records 12 records
2 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 1 marriages, 4 court minutes, 3 tax list entries and 1 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. Wills marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Wills Nathan
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Wills Isaac
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Wills Joseph Junr
1780s
- 1783Court minutesDeed, Jos. Wills to Nathan Wells.
- 1783Court minutesDeed, same to Jos. Wills, jr..
- 1789MarriagesMarriage bond: Levi Gifferd and Margaret Wills
1790s
- 1793Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): John Wills to William Falkner, 16 September 1793
- 1795WillsBill of sale: William Falkener to James F. Brehan