Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel (x) Tolby
Will Book B, page 136 · proved August 1791
Samuel Tolby named his wife, son, three daughters and Elizabeth Faddis and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel (x) Tolby (printed SAMUEL (x) TOLBY)
- Dated
- As printed: “No date”
- Proved
- August 1791 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); William Hitchcock Tolby (son); Milly Whitaker (daughter); Mary Kennady (daughter); Elizabeth Rhodes (daughter)
- Also left something
- Elizabeth Faddis
- Executors
- James Kennady; Richard Rhodes
- Witnesses
- A. Tatom; Wm. Strayhorn
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 136.
- 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).
