Orange County Indexed
Will of Mathew Scoby
Will Book A, page 273 · dated 17 October 1782 · proved November 1782
Mathew Scoby named wife Jenit, sons David and Robert, daughter Margaret Tait and unnamed girls, appointed guardians, and named Jenit and David executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mathew Scoby (printed MATHEW SCOBY)
- Dated
- 17 October 1782
- Proved
- November 1782 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Jenit (wife); David Scoby (eldest son); Robert (son); Margaret Tait (eldest daughter)
- Executors
- Jenit (wife); David Scoby
- Guardians
- Robert Burnsides; Jno. Patton
- Witness
- Robert Burnsides, Jr.
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 273.
- 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).
