Orange County Indexed
Will of Christopher Barbee
Will Book B, page 166 · dated 17 January 1792 · proved May 1792
Christopher Barbee named his pregnant wife and unnamed daughters and appointed Goin Barbee and Joseph Barbee executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Christopher Barbee (printed CHRISTOPHER BARBEE)
- Dated
- 17 January 1792
- Proved
- May 1792 court
- Family named
- Dicy Barbee (wife; she is pregnant)
- Executors
- Goin Barbee (loving friends); Joseph Barbee (loving friends)
- Witnesses
- Goin Barbee; Ephriam Beasley; Ransom (x) David
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 166.
- 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).
