Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert (x) Scott
Will Book A, page 314 · dated 5 September 1780 · proved November 1784
Robert Scott named wife Mary and seven children; Mary and another executor administered his will, which was proved in Virginia and later Orange County.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert (x) Scott (printed ROBERT (x) SCOTT), of Orange Co., N.C., being now in Culpeper Co., Va.
- Dated
- 5 September 1780
- Proved
- November 1784 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary Scott (wife); Mary (wife); Jesse Scott (my beloved children); William Scott (my beloved children); Vaughan Scott (my beloved children); Molley Scott (my beloved children); John Scott (my beloved children); Henry Scott (my beloved children); Richard Scott (my beloved children)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); Thannon (?) Viscrarser (?)
- Witnesses
- Rawley Corbin; Wm. Roberts
- Places
- Orange Co., N.C.; Culpeper Co., Va.
- Also named
- William Roberts (Proved in Culpeper Co., Va. by)
Reading note: Executor Thannon (?) Viscrarser (?) uncertain. Child’s faint given name Vaughan. Additional probate Culpeper Co., Va. 20 Nov 1780 by William Roberts retained.
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 314.
- 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).
