Orange County Indexed
Will of Israel (x) Stantefer
Will Book B, page 267 · dated 30 August 1793 · proved February 1794
Israel Stantefer named his wife, children and grandchildren, devised land, and appointed his wife and son Joshua executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Israel (x) Stantefer (printed ISRAEL (x) STANTEFER)
- Dated
- 30 August 1793
- Proved
- February 1794 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Israel Stanefer. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Cassander (wife); Casander (wife); Ephriam (son; eldest); Joshua (son); Isarel (son); Benjamin Stantefer (son); Sarah Rhoades (daughter); Rossaner Rhodes (daughter); Casander Hendon (daughter); Mary Stantefer (daughter); Elizabeth Stantefer (daughter); Cassandra (granddaughter, Sarah Rhoades daughter); Israel Turner (grandson, son of Ruth Turner)
- Executors
- Casander (wife); Joshua (son)
- Witnesses
- Joshua Standeford; Mary (x) Stantefer; Henry Bunch
- Land
- 100 acres of land called by name of William Baker’s place; land adjoining Thomas Guyns, John Cabe’s, William Tesmon (?); 88 acres on the north side of William Pickett’s cart road joining on Benjamin Peeler’s land
- Also named
- Ruth Turner (mother of grandson Israel Turner, wife of Wm. Turner); Wm. Turner (husband of Ruth Turner); William Baker (land boundary or tract name); Thomas Guyns (land boundary or tract name); John Cabe (land boundary or tract name); William Tesmon (?) (land boundary or tract name); William Pickett (land boundary or tract name); Benjamin Peeler (land boundary or tract name)
Reading note: Source questions William Tesmon (?). Wife printed Cassander then Casander; retained per occurrence.
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 267.
- 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).
