Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob Cain
Will Book A, page 208 · dated 6 August 1779
Jacob Cain named pregnant wife Joanna and an unborn child; Joanna and Jacob Allen were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob Cain (printed JACOB CAIN)
- Dated
- 6 August 1779
- Proved
- 1779 (no day or month given)
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1779. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Joanna (Wife; is pregnant)
- Executors
- Joanna (wife); Jacob Allen
- Witnesses
- James Fen (?); Wm. (x) Leathers; Wm. Johnston
Reading note: Probate year 1779 given without month; proved_term left empty. Witness James Fen (?) uncertain.
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 208.
- 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).
