Orange County Indexed
Will of John Bonney
Will Book A, page 27 · dated 10 April 1761 · proved May 1761
John Bonney provided for his wife and five sons; his wife was executrix with help from son John.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Bonney (printed JOHN BONNEY)
- Dated
- 10 April 1761
- Proved
- May 1761 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as John Borney. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Richard (son); Simon (son); Daniel (son); John (son); William (son)
- Executor
- John (my son; with help of)
- Witness
- William Clark
- In the paper’s words
- “with help of my son John”
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 27.
- 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).
