Will of Jacob Debley

Jacob Debley named his wife and five minor children and directed his sons to be apprenticed at fourteen.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Jacob Debley (printed JACOB DEBLEY)

Dated

17 May 1790

Proved

February 1791 court

Family named

Margery Debley (Wife); Jacob (my three sons; minors; to be apprenticed to trades when they reach 14 years of age); James (my three sons; minors; to be apprenticed to trades when they reach 14 years of age); John Debley (my three sons; minors; to be apprenticed to trades when they reach 14 years of age); Mary Debley (daughter; minors); Fanny Debly (daughter; minors)

Executors

John Steele; John Thompson

Witnesses

William Clendennin; William Morrow

Reading note: Surname printed only after last son; retained as printed.

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 126.
• 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).