The Williamson County Chancery Court records index covering the years from1842 to 1912 is now available on the Records Page of this site. The index contains the names of 5,663 people or businesses. With any luck over the next week or two, I will try to get the indexes posted for Common Law Court, Criminal Court, Divorce Court and Partition files.

Chancery court, known as the “court of equity”, was similar in many ways to the small claims court of today and handled most all smaller disputes. Typical cases would involve creditor and vendor bills, mechanic liens, injunctions, summons, specific performance cases, and all sorts of land disputes including deed claims, land warrants, property rights and disputes. The files provide unique insight into the lives of our ancestors.

These records took countless hours to transcribe from old documents and provide an invaluable resource for genealogists and historians that would normally never be made available it they hadn’t been preserved. The WCHS is in possession of each of the listed case files and they can be copied on request for a fee of $10 plus .50 for each page scan. If a search of the indexes locates a person of interest, a request for copies of the files in paper or digital format can then be made for a fee. Please, notate the corresponding file number, i.e. CR-012 and year. Contact Us