Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Administration of an estate: Jno Vance, Geo Doherty, John Umstead

25 February 1790 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Doherty exhibited Jno Vance’s purported will; named executors Doherty and Umstead declined the executorship.

Kind of business
Administration of an estate
Court
February 1790 term, 25 February 1790
People

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

  • Minute book 4, page 260
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1790 term
  • Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026