Orange County Indexed

Will or bequest, 3 January 1812

Gavin Alves's will directed that John and Esther be freed and left them legacies; Esther's son was to be bound to a trade and freed at 21.

Date: 3 January 1812
Record: Will or bequest
Citation: Orange County Will Book D, p. 352
From: Gavin Alves
People whose names were not recorded: Esther's son
Note: An 1804 deed conveyed a woman named Esther, about 20, and her infant son to Gavin Alves (record d0131). The will book gives no probate date.

People named

Name as recorded	Age	Notes
John
Esther

Each name links to every record naming someone of that name. Family ties are listed only where the record states them.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

In the will books, our record of the paper from Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstract: Will of Gavin Alves

Related records

Deed (sale or gift not stated), 29 February 1804ODB 11/112Esther, StephenJames Mears to Gavin Alves

Records on the same deed-book page, or that refer to one another, or a will and a later record that may concern the same person (a shared first name alone does not show that). Some are copies of the same document recorded twice.

Sources

Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstracts of the Orange County wills (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, 1958 and 1966). The Register’s compilation does not include this record; Orange County Indexed made it from the abstract and wrote the description.

This page is drawn from abstracts and catalog entries, not from the original document. Before relying on it, check the will book page.