Orange County Indexed
Will of William Riggs
Will Book A, page 270 · dated 6 March 1776 · proved November 1782
William Riggs named wife Mary, six sons and three daughters; his wife and son George were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Riggs (printed WILLIAM RIGGS)
- Dated
- 6 March 1776
- Proved
- November 1782 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (wife); George (son; minors); Thomas (son; minors); James (son; minors); Henry (son); Samuel (son); John (son); Ann (daughter); Jane (daughter; a minor); Mary (daughter; Barnaba Grymes' wife); Barnaba Grymes (wife)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); George (son)
- Witnesses
- John Latta; George Riggs
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 10, page 31; Deed Book 7, page 421
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 270.
- 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).
