Orange County Indexed
Will of John Booker
Will Book A, page 23 · dated 18 August 1761 · proved November 1761
John Booker named his wife Patience, daughter Patience and son James; no executor was named.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Booker (printed JOHN BOOKER)
- Dated
- 18 August 1761
- Proved
- November 1761 court
- Family named
- Patience (wife); James (son); Patience (daughter)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Brevard; Susannah Brown; Mary Richards
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 23.
- 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).
