Orange County Indexed
Will of James Rooney (or Roney)
Will Book A, page 42 · dated 2 August 1765 · proved November 1765
James Rooney named sons Benjamin and Thomas and daughters Elizabeth and Ann; John Sample was sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Rooney (or Roney) (printed JAMES ROONEY (or RONEY)), of St. Matthew's Parish, Orange Co., N.C.
- Dated
- 2 August 1765
- Proved
- November 1765 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as James Roney. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Benjamin (son); Thomas (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Ann (daughter)
- Executor
- John Sample
- Witnesses
- James McCarley; Mary Sample; John Bul....
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 42.
- 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).
