Orange County Indexed
Will of William Williams
Will Book B, page 22 · dated 18 June 1787
William Williams named wife Elizabeth, son William, brother Sam and nephew William Williams, devised land and a house, and appointed Elizabeth and George Doherty executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Williams (printed WILLIAM WILLIAMS)
- Dated
- 18 June 1787
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1787. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); William (son); Sam Williams (brother); William Williams (nephew, son of Sam)
- Executors
- Elizabeth (wife); George Doherty
- Witnesses
- J. Watts; Will Lytle
- Land
- land given to testator by the State of N.C. for his services as Captain in the Continental line of this State; house and lot in town of Hillsborough; land which he purchased from Jacob Richards in Orange Co.
- Places
- N.C.; Hillsborough; Orange Co.
- Also named
- Jacob Richards
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 22.
- 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).
