Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob Bishind (Bason)
Will Book A, page 172 · dated 11 October 1773 · proved August 1774
Jacob Bishind named wife Catherine, daughter Hannah and sons Jacob and John; Catherine and John were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob Bishind (Bason) (printed JACOB BISHIND (BASON))
- Dated
- 11 October 1773
- Proved
- August 1774 court
- Family named
- Catherine (wife); Jacob (son); Hannah (daughter)
- Executors
- Catherine (wife); John (son)
- Witnesses
- David Rainey; Jane Attcut (?)
Reading note: Surname alternative BASON; witness Jane Attcut (?) 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 172.
- 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).
