Orange County Indexed
Will of William Lindley
Will Book A, page 311 · dated 22 September 1784 · proved November 1784
William Lindley named wife Mary, children, brothers and two minor beneficiaries, distributed plantations, and appointed brothers Thomas and Jonathan Lindley executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Lindley (printed WILLIAM LINDLEY)
- Dated
- 22 September 1784
- Proved
- November 1784 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- MARY (wife); Thomas (son; under 21); Samuel (son; under 21); William (son; under 21); Ruth (2 daughters; under 18); Mary (2 daughters; under 18); Jonathan (brother); Thomas (brother); John Lindley (brother); Jonathan Lindley (brother)
- Also left something
- Susannah Maris (relationship not stated; both under age); William Maris (relationship not stated; both under age)
- Executors
- Thomas (brother); Jonathan Lindley (brother)
- Witnesses
- Joshua Hadley; Henry Holloday; Mary (x) Holloday
- Land
- plantation testator now lives on, with the mill; plantation formerly owned by Reubin Hollingsworth; plantation that John Lindley formerly owned; plantation joining James Newlin's
- Also named
- Reubin Hollingsworth; John Lindley; James Newlin
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 311.
- 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).
