Orange County Indexed
Will of Philip (x) Snoterly
Will Book B, page 255 · dated 27 February 1793 · proved November 1793
Philip Snoterly named his wife, two sons and three minor daughters and appointed two friends executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Philip (x) Snoterly (printed PHILIP (x) SNOTERLY)
- Dated
- 27 February 1793
- Proved
- November 1793 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Phillip Snotherly. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Henry (son); Jacob (son); Susannah (3 youngest daughters; all under age); Rachel (3 youngest daughters; all under age); Catherine (3 youngest daughters; all under age)
- Executors
- Peter Foust (Trusty friends); Jacob Antony (Trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- William Ray; Henry (x) Lay
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 255.
- 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).
