Orange County Indexed
Will of Jobe Farmer
Will Book A, page 372 · dated 10 March 1786 · proved November 1786
Jobe Farmer named sons Athniel and James and daughters Ann and Drucilla; his unnamed wife and Daniel Green were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jobe Farmer (printed JOBE FARMER)
- Dated
- 10 March 1786
- Proved
- November 1786 court
- Family named
- Athniel Farmer (son); James Farmer (son); Ann Farmer (daughter); Drucilla Farmer (daughter)
- Executor
- Daniel Green
- Witnesses
- Daniel Green; Grisham Forrest; John (x) Edwards
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 372.
- 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).
