Orange County Indexed
Will of Joel Brooks
Will Book A, page 34 · dated 26 August 1764 · proved September 1764
Joel Brooks named wife Mary and son John and appointed brother James executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joel Brooks (printed JOEL BROOKS)
- Dated
- 26 August 1764
- Proved
- September 1764 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (wife); John (son)
- Executor
- James (brother)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Brown; Charles Stout; Joseph Kyes
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 34.
- 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).
