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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

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.

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

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