Orange County Indexed
Will of Jonathan Fincher
Will Book A, page 3 · dated 20 March 1757 · proved May 1757
Jonathan Fincher provided for his wife, five sons and two daughters; Benjamin was to be bound to Joseph Mattox; no executor was named.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jonathan Fincher (printed JONATHAN FINCHER)
- Dated
- 20 March 1757
- Proved
- May 1757 court
- Family named
- Joshua (eldest son); Jonathan (son); Richard (son); Joseph (son); Benjamin (son); Mary (daughter); Hannah (daughter)
- Witnesses
- Benj. Cate; Charles Jonas; Margaret (x) Whitehead
- Money and goods
- ten shillings
- Also named
- Joseph Mattox (Benjamin to be bound to)
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 3.
- 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), page 7.
- 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).
