Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Albright
Will Book B, page 107 · dated 3 November 1790 · proved November 1790
John Albright named his pregnant wife, son and daughters and appointed his brother and neighbor executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Albright (printed JOHN (x) ALBRIGHT)
- Dated
- 3 November 1790
- Proved
- November 1790 court
- Family named
- Hester (wife; is pregnant ?); John Christian (son); Elizabeth (daughter); William Albright (brother)
- Executors
- William Albright (brother); Adam Smith (neighbor)
- Witnesses
- William Harp; Jacob Clap
- Land
- plantation on Beaver Creek joining John Clap
- Places
- Beaver Creek
- Also named
- John Clap (adjoining landowner)
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 107.
- 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).
