Will of Richard Cate

Richard Cate devised several tracts and a mill, named his wife and children, and appointed three executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Richard Cate (printed RICHARD CATE)

Dated

16 July 1793

Proved

February 1794 court

Family named

Emelia (wife); Benjamin (son); James Cate (son); Martha Hastin (Hastings ?) (daughter); James (my eight children); Jesse (my eight children); Richard (my eight children); Thomas (my eight children); John (my eight children); Martha (my eight children); Susannah (my eight children); Emilia (my eight children); John Cate (brother)

Executors

Sackfield (?) Brewer; John Cate (brother); James Cate (son)

Witnesses

Bernard Cate; Lewis Kirk

Land

One tract joins Charles Kelly; 100 acres which I purchased from James Crawford; 50 acres on Cain Creek; Land purchased from Thomas Moore; tract bought of Richard Tinnen on E. side od Cain Creek; my mill on west side of Cain Creek

Places

Cain Creek

Also named

Charles Kelly (land transaction or boundary); James Crawford (land transaction or boundary); Thomas Moore (land transaction or boundary); Richard Tinnen (land transaction or boundary)

Reading note: Source questions Martha Hastin (Hastings ?) and Sackfield (?) Brewer.

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 259.
• 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).