There are many variations of spelling for the Gammill name such as Gamel, Gamble, Gamil, Gambill, Gambel & Gammil due to the fact that the writers of various documents such as deeds, wills, census & court records sometimes wrote the name as they thought it should be spelled & sometime of the people in the English colonies of America were illiterate. English was a changing language & often many words had various spellings until standard dictionaries became more common. Some of the first Gammill records are found in North Carolina about the time of the American Revolution.