Orange County Indexed
Will of William (x) Bumpass
Will Book A, page 201 · dated 10 March 1776 · proved May 1776
William Bumpass named wife Mary and father Robert Bumpass; Gabriel Davey, Mary Bumpass and Edward Bumpass were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William (x) Bumpass (printed WILLIAM (x) BUMPASS)
- Dated
- 10 March 1776
- Proved
- May 1776 court
- Family named
- Mary (Wife); Robert Bumpass (father)
- Executors
- Gabriel Davey; Mary Bumpass; Edward Bumpass
- Witnesses
- Isaia Vanhook; Wm. Yarborough; James Davis
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 201.
- 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).
