Orange County Indexed
Will of Isaac Write
Will Book A, page 174 · dated 26 May 1772 · proved August 1774
Isaac Write named wife Mary and children, directed equal division of his remaining estate, and appointed his wife executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Isaac Write (printed ISAAC WRITE), of St. Mathew's Parish.
- Dated
- 26 May 1772
- Proved
- August 1774 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 28 May 1772. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Mary (Wife); Zacharias (son; both under age); Isaac (son; both under age); Providence (all my children); Zacarias (all my children); Mary (all my children); Isaac Write (all my children)
- Executor
- Mary (wife)
- Witnesses
- Bridger Haynie; Benjamin Ingram; Abraham Miles
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 174.
- 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).
