Orange County Indexed
Will of John Debow
Will Book A, page 259 · dated 1 July 1783 · proved November 1783
John Debow named wife Liney, two minor sons and two beneficiaries, provided education funds, and appointed Liney Debow and Jacob Lake executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Debow (printed JOHN DEBOW), Minister of the Gospel.
- Dated
- 1 July 1783
- Proved
- November 1783 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Liney (wife); Solomon (son; a minor); Stephen (son; a minor)
- Also left something
- Liney Lake (at her sixteenth year); John De Hodge (for his education)
- Executors
- Liney Debow; Jacob Lake (Mr.)
- Guardian
- Lake (Mr.; in case of wife’s death)
- Witnesses
- William Tate; John (x) Hodge; Joel Rice; Jos. Baker
- Land
- tract of land lying on waters of Eno
- Money and goods
- £ for his education
- Places
- Eno
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 259.
- 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).
