Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Reed
Will Book A, page 102 · dated 4 September 1765 · proved July 1769
Samuel Reed named wife Mary and beneficiaries Samuel Stewart and Elizabeth Jones; his wife and Thomas Lindley Sr. were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Reed (printed SAMUEL REED)
- Dated
- 4 September 1765
- Proved
- July 1769 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife)
- Also left something
- Samuel Stewart (now living with me; to him at 21); Elizabeth Jones (to be of age at 18)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); Thomas Lindley, Sr.
- Witnesses
- Wm. Lindley; John Maroon
Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.
Where to find it
- Orange County Will Book A, page 102.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
