Orange County Indexed
Will of John Riley (or Rieley)
Will Book B, page 152 · dated 28 July 1791
John Riley named his wife and seven children and appointed John Armstrong and Mary Rieley executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Riley (or Rieley) (printed JOHN RILEY (or RIELEY))
- Dated
- 28 July 1791
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Mary (wife); William (son); Robert (son); Samuel (son); Jane Riley (daughter); Mary Donaldson (daughter); Nancy (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter)
- Executors
- John Armstrong (trusty friends); Mary Rieley (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- John Armstrong; James Riggs
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 152.
- 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).
