Orange County Indexed
Will of James Woody
Will Book B, page 191 · dated 24 February 1792 · proved November 1792
James Woody named his wife and two youngest brothers and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Woody (printed JAMES WOODY)
- Dated
- 24 February 1792
- Proved
- November 1792 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 5 June 1792. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Rebecca Woody (wife); Joseph (two youngest brothers; both under 21); Lewis Woody (two youngest brothers; both under 21)
- Executors
- Johnathan Lindley; James Woody
- Witnesses
- Ezekiel Hornaday; Peter Duks; Zachariah Duks
Reading note: Brothers’ surname printed only after last given name; 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 191.
- 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).
