Orange County Indexed
Bond: John Rice to Robinson Mumford
Will Book B, page 130 · dated 1 September 1789 · proved May 1791
John Rice and Jesse Benton bound themselves to Robinson Mumford for eleven hundred pounds concerning Rice’s land purchase.
- Kind of paper
- Bond
- Made by
- John Rice (printed JOHN RICE), of Davidson Co., N.C.
- Dated
- 1 September 1789
- Proved
- May 1791 court
- To
- ROBINSON MUMFORD (of Orange Co., N.C.)
- Witnesses
- James Mumford; John Umstead
- Land
- 15,000 acres of land situate on the Western waters
- Money and goods
- Eleven hundred pounds
- Places
- Western waters
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 130.
- 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).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
