Orange County Indexed
Will of William Rhodes
Will Book B, page 120 · dated 6 January 1791 · proved February 1791
William Rhodes named his wife and three children and appointed his wife and brother executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Rhodes (printed WILLIAM RHODES)
- Dated
- 6 January 1791
- Proved
- February 1791 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Hannah Rhodes (my three children); Elizabeth Rhodes (my three children); Alexander Rhodes (my three children); Aquilla Rhodes (brother)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); Aquilla Rhodes (brother)
- Witnesses
- Richard Rhodes; Thomas Rhodes; Henry Burch or Bunch
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 120.
- 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).
