Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Wade
Will Book A, page 67 · dated 3 January 1757 · proved August 1767
Joseph Wade named wife Sarah, three sons, five daughters and grandson Joseph Strawther; son Joseph Wade and son-in-law Joseph Powell were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Wade (printed JOSEPH WADE)
- Dated
- 3 January 1757
- Proved
- August 1767 court
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); John (son); James (son); Joseph Wade (son); Mary Strawther (daughter); Susannah Hart (daughter); Elizabeth Talley (daughter); Lucy Powell (daughter); Sarah Fountain (daughter); Joseph Strawther (grandson)
- Executors
- Joseph Wade (son); Joseph Powell (my son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- William Bradford; Samuel Burton
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 67.
- 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).
