Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Abercromby
Will Book A, page 209 · dated 31 May 1779 · proved August 1779
Robert Abercromby named sons Charles and Robert and daughter Jenny Mebane; his sons were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Abercromby (printed ROBERT ABERCROMBY)
- Dated
- 31 May 1779
- Proved
- August 1779 court
- Family named
- Charles (son); Robert (son); Jenny Mebane (daughter)
- Executors
- Charles (son); Robert (son)
- Witnesses
- William Saxon; James (x) Desern; Enoch Liner (or Lewis ?)
Reading note: Witness Enoch Liner (or Lewis ?) 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 209.
- 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).
