Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Dobbins
Will Book A, page 169 · dated 31 July 1774 · proved August 1774
Thomas Dobbins named wife Rachel, three sons and four daughters, distributed land, and directed executors to deed purchased land to Daniel Hall.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Dobbins (printed THOMAS DOBBINS)
- Dated
- 31 July 1774
- Proved
- August 1774 court
- Family named
- Rachel (wife); Hugh (son); John (2nd son); Thomas (youngest son); Margaret (daughter); Elizabeth Dobbin (daughter); Rachel (my two little daughters); Nancy (my two little daughters); Thomas Dobbins (my cousin)
- To
- Daniel Hall
- Executors
- Rachel (wife); Hugh (son); Archibald Murphy (friend)
- Witnesses
- William Zachary; John Connor
- Land
- 440 acres; 432 acres; plantation; land he bought of my cousin Thomas Dobbins
- Places
- Country Line Creek; Reedy Fork of Hico Creek
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 169.
- 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).
