Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Akin
Will Book A, page 59 · dated 4 January 1766 · proved February 1767
Joseph Akin named two sons and three daughters, noted two land sales, and appointed Thomas Asgah executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Akin (printed JOSEPH AKIN)
- Dated
- 4 January 1766
- Proved
- February 1767 court
- Family named
- Thomas (son); Joseph Akin (son); Mary Akin (daughter); Suillah ? (daughter); Sarah (daughter)
- Executor
- Thomas Asgah (living in Hallyfax County in Va.)
- Witnesses
- Alex (x) Montgomery; John (x) Luis; Sam Barton
- Land
- 370 acres of land lying on the head of Sandy River in Hallyfax Co. in Va. which he bought of me; 600 acres on Lick Fork of Moore's Creek in Orange County, N.C. which he bought of me.
- Places
- Sandy River; Hallyfax Co. in Va.; Lick Fork of Moore's Creek; Orange County, N.C.
- Also named
- Joseph Ostin; George Jefferson
Reading note: Continues on PDF page 17. Daughter Suillah ? uncertain; sons printed Thomas, Joseph Akin, surname once.
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 59.
- 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).
