Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Smith
Will Book A, page 121 · dated 20 June 1772
Robert Smith named wife Mary, four sons and three daughters; Joseph McCaffrity and son William were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Smith (printed ROBERT SMITH), of St. Mathew's Parish.
- Dated
- 20 June 1772
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Mary (Wife); John (son); Andrew (son); Robert (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Mary (daughter); Isabel (daughter)
- Executors
- Joseph McCaffrity; William (son)
- Witnesses
- John Walker; Robert Chassen (?)
Reading note: Witness Robert Chassen (?) uncertain in source.
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 121.
- 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).
