Spoken will of William Boring

William Boring orally left an unnamed enslaved person and other property to brothers Charles and Joseph Boring; two men attested his wishes.

Kind of paper

Spoken will

Testator

William Boring (printed WILLIAM BORING)

Proved

October 1768 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 11 October 1768. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Charles (brother); Joseph Boring (brother)

Witnesses

John Currie; James Culbertson

Enslaved people not named

An enslaved person

Also named

William Lee (Justice of the Peace; sworn before on June 20 1768)

Reading note: Attestation before William Lee dated June 20 1768; no date stated for oral will. Charles and Joseph Boring share printed surname.

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 93.
• 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).