Orange County Indexed
Will of Benjamin Blake
Will Book A, page 275 · dated 2 April 1783 · proved May 1783
Benjamin Blake mentioned his unnamed wife, named children and grandchildren, appointed Edward Trice trustee, and named son Jones Blake sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Benjamin Blake (printed BENJAMIN BLAKE), planter
- Dated
- 2 April 1783
- Proved
- May 1783 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Benjamin Blake (son); Jones Blake (son); Martha Cain (daughter); Sarah Braswell (daughter); Rebecca Mason? or MASSEY? (daughter); Penelope Blake (daughter; all minors); Ann Blake (daughter; all minors); Bethana Blake (daughter; all minors); Penelope (grandchild, children of Thomas Philips); Mary (grandchild, children of Thomas Philips); Ann (grandchild, children of Thomas Philips); Obedience (grandchild, children of Thomas Philips); Hardy Philips (grandchild, children of Thomas Philips); Sarah (grandchild, children of Elisha Cane); Absalom Cane (grandchild, children of Elisha Cane)
- Executor
- Jones Blake (son)
- Trustee
- Edward Trice (trusty friend, my near neighbor)
- Witnesses
- Enoch Lewis; James Trice; William Trice
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 4, page 81
- Also named
- Thomas Philips; Elisha Cane
Reading note: Daughter Rebecca Mason? or MASSEY? alternative faint; provisional reading retained. Minor descriptor may apply only to last three daughters. Grandchildren share Phillips and Cane surnames once.
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 275.
- 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).
