Orange County Indexed
Will of George Bower
Will Book A, page 128 · dated 15 July 1770
George Bower provided for unnamed sons and daughters at maturity and appointed wife Margaret executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Bower (printed GEORGE BOWER)
- Dated
- 15 July 1770
- Proved
- Date not given
- Executor
- Margaret (wife)
- Witnesses
- Edward Turner; James Browning; Hugh Finley
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 128.
- 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).
