Orange County Indexed
Will of Adam Mason
Will Book A, page 25 · dated 4 August 1763 · proved November 1763
Adam Mason named four sons and daughters Elizabeth and Anne Phillipina; sons Tobias and Jacob were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Adam Mason (printed ADAM MASON)
- Dated
- 4 August 1763
- Proved
- November 1763 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Adam Moser. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Anthony (son); Francis (son); Tobias (son); Jacob (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Anne Phillipina (daughter)
- Executors
- Tobias (son); Jacob (son)
- Witnesses
- Francis Nash; Ralph McNair; Phillip Jackson
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 25.
- 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).
