Orange County Indexed
Will of Abel (x) Pocock
Will Book A, page 321 · dated 25 October 1784 · proved February 1785
Abel Pocock named wife Temperance, underage daughter Nancy and son James; John Butler and Henry Bunch were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Abel (x) Pocock (printed ABEL (x) POCOCK)
- Dated
- 25 October 1784
- Proved
- February 1785 court
- Family named
- Temperance Pocock (wife); James Pocock (son); Nancy Pocock (daughter; under age)
- Executors
- John Butler; Henry Bunch
- Witnesses
- John Butler; Henry Bunch; Betsy (x) Rebe Horn
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 321.
- 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).
