Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Rice
Will Book A, page 262 · dated 19 January 1783 · proved November 1783
John Rice named wife Catrin, daughter Hannah, two grandsons and son-in-law Jesse Towel; Jesse and nephew John Murry were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Rice (printed JOHN (x) RICE)
- Dated
- 19 January 1783
- Proved
- November 1783 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Catrin (wife); Hannah (daughter); John Towel (grandson); Henry Towel (grandson); John Murry (nephew); Jesse Towel (son-in-law)
- Executors
- Jesse Towel (son-in-law); John Murry (nephew)
- Witnesses
- James Thomson; John Marduk; Prudence Marduk
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 262.
- 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).
