Orange County Indexed
Will of Andross Randall
Will Book B, page 20
Andross Randall named wife Catherine and daughter Mary Randall; no executor was named.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Andross Randall (printed ANDROSS RANDALL)
- Dated
- As printed: “Dated 18 July 1877”
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 18 July 1787 and the probate as August 1787. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Catherine (Wife); Mary Randall (daughter)
- Witnesses
- Robert Cate; Joseph Cate; Thomas Cate
Reading note: The abstract gives the date of the paper as 1877, which cannot be right for this book; the year is left out of the dates and search.
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 20.
- 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).
