Orange County Indexed
Will of John Butler
Will Book B, page 1 · dated 20 May 1785
John Butler named wife Anne and appointed her and William Rainey executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Butler (printed JOHN BUTLER)
- Dated
- 20 May 1785
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1787. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Anne (wife)
- Executors
- Anne (wife); William Rainey (Esq.)
- Witnesses
- Moses Crawford; Wm. Shannon
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 B, page 1.
- 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).
