Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Young
Will Book A, page 225 · dated 24 September 1781 · proved November 1781
Joseph Young named father John Young and son John, mentioned his unnamed possibly pregnant wife, and appointed her and friend Robert Agnew executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Young (printed JOSEPH YOUNG)
- Dated
- 24 September 1781
- Proved
- November 1781 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- John (son); John Young (father)
- Executor
- Robert Agnew (friend)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Galbreath; R. Galbreath
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 225.
- 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).
