Orange County Indexed
Will of Alexander Mebane
Will Book B, page 216 · dated 30 April 1789 · proved February 1793
Alexander Mebane named his wife (not by name), four sons, three married daughters and two grandchildren; his sons Alexander and James were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Alexander Mebane (printed ALEXANDER MEBANE)
- Dated
- 30 April 1789
- Proved
- February 1793 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- William (son); Alexander (son); James (son); John (son); Jennett Anderson (daughter); Ann Morrow (daughter); Margaret Murdaugh (daughter); Margaret Anderson (granddaughter); Alexander Anderson (grandson)
- Executors
- Alexander Mebane; James Mebane
- Witnesses
- Thos. Mulholland; Edward Wilson; William Wilson
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 216.
- 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).
